# Basilides, Who, From An Executioner Became A Christian, Beheaded For The Name Of Christ, At Alexandria, About The Year 204.

c. 204 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: BASILIDES, WHO, FROM AN EXECUTIONER BECAME A CHRISTIAN, BEHEADED FOR THE NAME OF CHRIST, AT ALEXANDRIA, ABOUT THE YEAR 204.

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Not long after the death of Potamiena, who had
died with the abovementioned Rhais and Marcella,
one of the executioners, named Basilides, who had
brought her to death, was converted to the faith in
Christ. Eusebius writes: “Being among his companions,
and an oath being demanded of him on
some special matter, he said, that he dared not
swear at all, because he was a Christian, and did
openly confess it before them. When they heard
this, they thought at first, that he was joking; but
when he persistently asserted it, and showed that
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he was in earnest, he was seized and cast into prison.
When some of the brethren came to visit him, and
inquired how it happened that he had become
changed so suddenly, he fully satisfied them in
regard to the matter. Having heard this, they gave
him the sign of the Lord, that is (as A. Mellinus
explains it), he was baptized in the name of Christ.
The following day he was beheaded for the confession
of the Lord. Compare the preceding accounts
concerning the disciples of Origen, with Eusebius,
lib. 6, cap. 5, fol. 107, col. 1, 2. Also, A. Mellinus,
1st book, fol. 58, col. 1, 2. Also, P. J. Twisck,
Chron., 3d book, for the year 204, fol. 55, col. 2,
above. Also, Introduction M. Sp., fol. 39, col. 1.





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