1At Magydos the inhabitants flee when the governor summons them.
2Conon, a gardener, is found and dragged to the governor.
3Conon is presented to the governor and declares he obeys Christ the King.
4The governor urges Conon to offer a token sacrifice and mocks the crucified Christ.
5Conon rebukes the governor and defies his threats.
6Conon is made to run before the chariot with nailed feet and dies praying; a short summary of his martyrdom follows.
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 (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 XII, pp. 129–133 (Printed edition in the public domain; Tesseract OCR of a public-domain scan (Internet Archive))