# Peter Apselamus, A Young Man, Burned Alive At Cesarea For The Name Of Jesus Christ, A. D. 308.

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Shortly afterwards (on the 11th of January), a
pious man, called Peter, and surnamed Apselamus,
was apprehended. He was a native of Amea, a village
in the neighborhood of Elentheropolis. For
some time he had led the life of a recluse, having
retired into solitude to give himself over to divine
meditations.

Though the Judge and the other members of the
tribunal had begged him again and again, to have
compassion upon himself and his youth (for he was
yet in the bloom of life), he disregarded it all, putting
his entire confidence in the living and true God,
whom he loved more than all this world contains,
yea, than his own life. Finally he suffered his confidence
in Christ, his Savior, to be tried, as precious
gold, by fire, and was burned alive at Cesarea, for
the name of Jesus Christ, having commended his
soul into the hands of God. Idem, Ibidem, ex
Euseb., lib. 8.

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