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Book VI, Ch. 4 — The pupils of Origen that became Martyrs.

Ecclesiastical History · Eusebius of Caesarea

1. The first of these was Plutarch, who was mentioned just above.

2. After Plutarch, the second martyr among the pupils of Origen was Serenus, who gave through fire a proof of the faith which he had received.

3. The third martyr from the same school was Heraclides, and after him the fourth was Hero. The former of these was as yet a catechumen, and the latter had but recently been baptized. Both of them were beheaded. After them, the fifth from the same school proclaimed as an athlete of piety was another Serenus, who, it is reported, was beheaded, after a long endurance of tortures. And of women, Herais

Ecclesiastical History · Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 324). Public-domain text from CCEL ↗, rendered verbatim (structural formatting only; the translator's footnotes are omitted). Served from our own database.

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