# Alexander Of Jerusalem, After Many Torments, Put To Death For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ, At Jerusalem, And Others At Different Places, A. D. 247.

247 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: ALEXANDER OF JERUSALEM, AFTER MANY TORMENTS, PUT TO DEATH FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST, AT JERUSALEM, AND OTHERS AT DIFFERENT PLACES, A. D. 247.

Source heading; not independently verified

Alexander of Jerusalem, who was a bishop of the
church of Christ in that place, had to suffer much
for the Christian truth. Eusebius Pamphilius of
Cesarea writes, that for confessing Christ he was
brought before the Judge, bound with chains, and
cast into prison. And he also writes, that when
they had, time and again, drawn this venerable old
man from the prison to the tribunal, and from the
tribunal back to his chains, he continually, in his
suffering and pain, thanked God, and finally,
through unspeakable torments, offered up his spirit.
Histor. Eccles., lib. 6, cap. 29.

P. J. Twisck fixes this occurrence in the year
247, and adds these words: “About this time there
were many martyrs in Alexandria, Judea, at Cesarea,
Antioch, and elsewhere, who testified to the Christian
faith with their blood and death.” Third book,
page 66, col. 1, from Euseb. Also, Hist. Adri.,
fol. 32, Jan. Cresp., fol. 48.

NOTE.—Although it is stated that the aforementioned
Alexander was put to death after the
seven years’ reign of Philippus, by the Emperor
Decius, A. D. 247, we have nevertheless included
him in the sixth persecution, since he, as it appears,
was apprehended long before the commencement
of the seventh general persecution, which did not
begin until A. D. 251, and was in full force in 253.





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