Attalus, Roasted in an Iron Chair

At the time that this awful pressure of conscience continued under the Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, not ceasing until those who tried to live a Christian life according to their faith had ended their lives under many torments, it came about that a certain pious Christian, called Attalus, who had been arrested for the name of Jesus, his Savior, was tortured most inhumanly, even to the point that he was placed over the fire in an iron chair, and roasted. When he was asked what name the God of the Christians had, he answered: "Where there are many gods, they are distinguished by names; but where there is only one God, no name is necessary." He was finally brought into the amphitheater, to be devoured by the wild beasts. But when these, either providentially, or because they were already full, did not touch him, neither with their claws, nor with their teeth, he, together with other pious martyrs, was stabbed through the throat. Some write that he was then beheaded. Compare Joh. Gys., folio 17, column 4, and folio 18, column 1, with P. J. Twisck, Chron., book 2, for the year 172, page 46, column 1, from Hist. Andr., folio 19. Also, Introduction to, and so on, folio 38, column 1, taken from Euseb., book 5, chapters 2 and 3.