# Leonides, The Father Of Origen, Beheaded At Alexandria, In Egypt, For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ, About The Year 202.

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Leonides, the father of Origen, was, according
to the testimony of Suidas, a bishop of the church
of Christ, and also became a martyr, at Alexandria
in Egypt. His imprisonment, suffering, and death
occurred on this wise: When from nearly all the
cities and villages of Egypt and Thebes, Christian
champions, that is, martyrs, were brought, to fight
and suffer for the name of Jesus Christ, Leonides
was also one of those who were brought prisoners
to Alexandria, the capital of Egypt.

When he had been imprisoned for some time, his
son Origen, then but seventeen years old, sent him
a very comforting letter, in which he exhorted him
to constancy, writing, among other things: “Be
strong in the Lord, my father, and endure valiantly
the suffering which awaits thee. Let not regard for
us induce thee to do otherwise.” He means to say:
O father! do not grieve too much for thy wife, our
dear mother, or for us, thy seven beloved children,
of whom I am the oldest; or become so wavering,
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that through desire to usward thou shouldest forsake
thy faithful God and Savior.” This was in
brief the import of the letter which Origen wrote to
his father. It acted as a healing medicine in the
wounds of the sorrowful mind of his father, so that
he resolved to patiently suffer death for the honor
of his Savior. He was finally sentenced to be beheaded,
and all his property was confiscated for the
treasury of the Roman Empire. This happened in
the time of Emperor Severus, about the year 201.
Compare Euseb., lib. 6, cap. 2, with Abr. Mell.,
1st book of the Hist., fol. 57, col. 1, ex Hieron.
Catal. in Orig. Also, P. J. Twisck, Chron., 2d
book, for the year 195, page 51, col. 2. Also, Introduction
to the Martyrs Mirror, edition 1631, fol. 38,
col. 2. Also, Joh. Gys. Hist. Mart., edition 1657,
fol. 3.



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