1The Forty ask to be buried together at Sarein and that their relics not be divided.
2An exhortation to flee worldly glory, repent while there is time, and love one another.
3Greetings to families and churches, and the forty signatures.
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
ca. 320 (approximate)
Written at
unknown, unknown (disputed)
Language
Greek
Genre
martyrdom
Reference system
chapter, following Gebhardt's numbering as printed; 0 = title. Chapter numbers the OCR could not read are not separate refs: their text lies inside the preceding ref.
SBL abbreviation
Act.Not yet checked
Text from
Oscar von Gebhardt, ed., Ausgewählte Märtyrerakten (Berlin: Karl Curtius, 1902), item XVI, pp. 166–170 (Printed edition in the public domain; Tesseract OCR of a public-domain scan (Internet Archive))