1The deacon Euplius gives himself up at Catana with the Gospels and reads from them.
2Under torture Euplius confesses the Trinity and refuses to surrender the Scriptures.
3Euplius is beheaded with the Gospel hung round his neck.
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
304 (12 August) (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. 18, pp. 92–94 (Printed edition in the public domain; Tesseract OCR of a public-domain scan (Internet Archive))