1Crispina of Thagara, brought before the proconsul Anulinus at Theveste, refuses again and again to sacrifice to the gods, confessing the one God and Christ, and is threatened with shaving and death.
2Anulinus sentences Crispina to death by the sword, and she gives thanks to Christ for her deliverance.
About this work
Author
Anonymous
Attribution
authentic · Anonymous record of the trial and death of the martyrs.
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Anonymous or pseudonymous work read and used in the church of its time.
Date
304 (5 December) (probable)
Written at
unknown, unknown (disputed)
Language
Latin
Genre
martyrdom
Reference system
chapter, following Ruinart's numbering as printed (Acta primorum martyrum sincera et selecta, 1689)
SBL abbreviation
Act.Not yet checked
Text from
Thierry Ruinart, ed., Acta primorum martyrum sincera et selecta (Paris: Muguet, 1689), pp. 494–496 (Printed edition in the public domain; OCR of a public-domain scan (Google Books / Internet Archive))