# Heron, Ater, And Isidore, Burned For The Faith; And Dioscorus, A Youth Of Fifteen Years Set Free After Having Been Greatly Tormented; At Alexandria, About The Year 253.

c. 253 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: HERON, ATER, AND ISIDORE, BURNED FOR THE FAITH; AND DIOSCORUS, A YOUTH OF FIFTEEN YEARS SET FREE AFTER HAVING BEEN GREATLY TORMENTED; AT ALEXANDRIA, ABOUT THE YEAR 253.

Source heading; not independently verified

Heron, Ater, and Isidore, Egyptians by birth,
and a youth of fifteen years, called Dioscorus, were
committed to the Judge of Alexandria, at the same
time. The Judge examined the youth first, supposing
it a very easy matter to persuade him, or deceive
him by fair words, or, if not on this wise, to
move him by torments (of which, as Eusebius says,
many were inflicted upon him), to deny the Christian
faith. But this excellent youth, Dioscorus, could
be induced neither by fair words nor by the force of
torments, to obey the Judge.

The three men, namely Heron, Ater, and Isidore,
the Judge had most cruelly scourged, and examined
with all manner of stripes, intending to draw them
away from the faith; but when he saw that because
of their faith in Jesus Christ they valiantly endured
all the torments, he delivered them to the executioners
to be burned alive; except the youth Dioscorus,
whom he released, on account of his courage
as well as the astonishingly discreet answers
which he gave to every one of his questions; saying
that in consideration of his youth he would wink at
his perverseness for the present, so that, in the
meantime he might reflect upon the matter, and repent.
But the ancient writers state, that, coming to
the church of Jesus Christ, God ordained him to be
a bulwark and consolation of his people; awaiting a
longer and severer conflict, and a greater and fuller
reward; on account of which, as well as because of
his previous sufferings, he was reckoned among the
pious martyrs. See the abovementioned authors and
books.





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