SS. PELEUS, PA-TERMUTHES, AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS

SS. PELEUS, PA-TERMUTHES, AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS - 19 SEPTEMBER

SAINTS PELEUS, PA-TERMUTHES, AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS

The holy confessors who were condemned to the mines in Palestine, during the course of the last general persecution, built little oratories, where they met to the divine service, which under their sufferings was their solid comfort.

Firmilian, governor of Palestine, informed the Emperor Galerius of the liberty they had taken, and the tyrant sent an order that they should be sent, some to the mines in Cyprus, others to those on Mount Libanus, and others to other places.

Firmilian being in the meantime beheaded himself for his crimes, the officer upon whom the command was devolved after his disgrace, removed the servants of God to the new places of their banishment, according to the tenour of the imperial rescript; but first caused four of their number to be burned alive.

These were Peleus and Nilus, two Egyptian priests, Elias, also a priest, and Pa-Termuthes, an Egyptian of singular learning and reputation. This last was the person to whom Eusebius and St Pamphilus addressed their apology for Origen.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 The Holy Martyrs Peleus and Pa-Termuthes, and Companions)

⬅️ Their entry in the Roman Martyrology

➡️ Fr Stadler's information

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