# Irene And Her Two Sisters, Burned Alive For The Testimony Of Jesus Christ, A. D. 309.

309 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: IRENE AND HER TWO SISTERS, BURNED ALIVE FOR THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST, A. D. 309.

Source heading; not independently verified

In the records written, through the clerk of the
criminal court, by the Proconsul Dulcetius, concerning
some pious martyrs, there is pronounced,
at the close, a certain sentence of death over three
sisters, who steadfastly continued in the truth of
Christ. The last part of the aforementioned records
contain, in regard to this, the following words:
“And when he (Dulcetius) had demanded paper,
he wrote this sentence of death: ‘Whereas Irene
would not obey the decree of the Emperors, and
sacrifice to the gods, and does still remain a Christian,
therefore I command that she be burned alive,
as her two sisters were.’ ”

When the criminal Judge had pronounced this
sentence upon Irene, the soldiers took her and
brought her upon an elevated place, where her
sisters had died; and when they had built a great
fire of wood, they made her climb upon it, and
there, after singing sweet psalms and hymns of
praise to the honor of God, she was consumed by
the flames. A. Mell., fol. 130 and 131, col. 1, ex
Act. Ver. Proconsular. apud Metaph. Also, Acta
cognitionis novissime diei.





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