1Achatius professes loyal prayer for the emperor but refuses sacrifice, naming the God of Abraham.
2Achatius ridicules Apollo and the other gods from their own myths.
3Achatius compares the threat to brigandage and appeals to Christ's judgment.
4Achatius explains the Son of God as the Word proceeding from God's heart.
5Achatius refuses to name others; Decius, amused, promotes the judge and releases Achatius.
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. 250–251 (approximate)
Written at
unknown, unknown (disputed)
Language
Latin
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 IX, pp. 115–120 (Printed edition in the public domain; Tesseract OCR of a public-domain scan (Internet Archive))