# Some Pious Christians Who Went To Visit Their Confined Fellow-Brethren, Apprehended At Cesarea, And Banished To The Mines; But Three Of Them, Namely, Ares, Promus, And Elias, Put To Death At Askalon, A. D. 308.

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About the beginning of the year 308, some godfearing
Christians left Egypt, with the intention of
journeying to Cilicia, to supply those, who for the
confession of the faith had been banished to the
mines there, with some needful things in their misery
and poverty. They were apprehended at Cesarea
by the guard at the gate of the city. Some of
them were sent into misery and slavery through the
same sentence, which consisted in this, that the
right eye was to be put out, and the left knee-pan
cut away, and the wound seared; and thus with
one eye and one leg they were compelled to labor
in this hard slavery.

Three of their number were apprehended at Askalon,
in Palestine, and were tormented in various
ways, because they steadfastly confessed their faith.
One of them, named Ares, was burnt alive; the
other two, Promus and Elias, were beheaded, and
thus departed this life in a godly manner. A. Mell.,
1st book, fol. 126, col. 1, from Euseb.



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