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Church History 6.4.3

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: Heraclides, Hero, another Serenus, and the catechumen Herais, “baptized by fire,” were also martyred.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:246

τῆς αὐτῆς διατριβῆς τρίτος καθίσταται μάρτυς Ἡρακλείδης, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ τέταρτος Ἥρων, ὁ μὲν πρότερος ἔτι κατηχούμενος, ὁ δὲ νεοφώτιστος, τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτμηθέντες. ἔτι πρὸς τούτοις τῆς αὐτῆς σχολῆς πέμπτος ἀθλητὴς τῆς εὐσεβείας ἀνακηρύττεται ἕτερος τοῦ πρώτου Σερῆνος, ὃν μετὰ πλείστην βασάνων ὑπομονὴν κεφαλῆς ἀποτομῇ κολασθῆναι λόγος ἔχει. καὶ γυναικῶν δὲ Ἡραῒς ἔτι κατηχουμένη τὸ βάπτισμα, ὥς φησί που αὐτὸς, τὸ διὰ πυρὸς λαβοῦσα τὸν βίον ἐξελήλυθεν.

English · Claude translation

From the same school the third martyr was Heraclides, and after him the fourth Hero; the former was still a catechumen, the latter newly baptized; both were beheaded. Besides these, a fifth athlete of piety from the same school is proclaimed, another Serenus, different from the first, who is said to have been punished by beheading after enduring very many tortures. And of women, Herais, still a catechumen, departed this life having received, as he himself somewhere says, the baptism by fire.

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Source
Dindorf 4:246 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
Topics
Martyrdom, Baptism

Notes

Translation notes

  • Origen regarded martyrdom as a baptism (cf. Exhortation to Martyrdom 30).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/4/3/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 6.4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/6/4/3/).

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