# Sylvanus, Januarius, Sosius, Proculus, Pelagia, Theonas, Cyrenia, And Juliana, All Of Whom Laid Down Their Lives For The Evangelical Truth, A. D. 305.

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Sylvanus, Bishop of the church of Emissa, a city
of Apamea, in Syria, was, with many others, thrown
before the wild beasts, to be devoured by them.

Januarius, Bishop of the church of Beneventum;
Sosius, a deacon of the church of Misenum; Proculus,
deacon, at Pussolis, and others, were beheaded
together.

Pelagia was suffocated in a redhot ox.

Theonas, with his companions, Cyrenia and Juliana,
were deprived of life by other methods. Joh.
Gys., about the death of Januarius and Sosius.
Abr. Mell., fol. 141, ex Act. per Johannem Januarii
Diaconum conscripta per surium edita.



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