Ptolomeus, a Godfearing Man

It is stated that Ptolomeus was a pious and Godfearing man, who had converted his wife from the blindness of heathendom to the faith. He was arrested for the truth of Christ. When he was asked whether he was a Christian, he, as a lover of the truth, at once confessed that he was. After this confession he was thrown into prison, where he suffered so long that he became completely emaciated. At last he was handed over to the judge Urbicius, who shortly afterward had him put to death; and so Ptolomeus became a faithful martyr of Jesus Christ. Compare Joh. Gysii Hist. Mart., printed at Dort, 1657, folio 15, column 3, with Abr. Mell., 1st book of the Hist. der vervolg. Mart., also printed at Dort in the year 1619, folio 32, column 2, from Just. Philos. Apol. prima Christian Euseb., book 4, chapter 17. [n147-1]