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Martyrdom of Justin, Chariton and Companions (Acts of Justin, recension B)

Martyrium Iustini et sociorum · Μαρτύριον τῶν ἁγίων μαρτύρων Ἰουστίνου, Χαρίτωνος κτλ.

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Contents

  1. 0Title of the account.
  2. 1The Christians are arrested and brought before Rusticus, prefect of Rome.
  3. 2Justin states the Christian belief in one Creator and in Christ foretold by the prophets.
  4. 3Justin says God is not bound to a place and describes where he teaches.
  5. 4Justin's companions confess one by one.
  6. 5Justin hopes for heavenly reward; all refuse to sacrifice and are condemned.
  7. 6The martyrs are beheaded and secretly buried.

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. 165 (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 III, pp. 18–21 (Printed edition in the public domain; Tesseract OCR of a public-domain scan (Internet Archive))