1At the emperor's birthday feast the centurion Marcellus throws down his belt and arms.
2Marcellus explains his act to the governor and is sent on to Agricolanus.
3The governor's report on Marcellus is read before Agricolanus (30 October).
4Marcellus confirms his statements before Agricolanus.
5Marcellus is sentenced and beheaded, blessing his judge.
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
298 (30 October) (probable)
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
Rudolf Knopf, ed., Ausgewählte Märtyrerakten, 2nd ed. (Tübingen, 1913), no. 14, pp. 78–79 (Printed edition in the public domain; Tesseract OCR of a public-domain scan (Internet Archive))