The Sixth Year of the Persecution, Commenced, in the Year 307

From among those who were put to death in the sixth year of Diocletian's persecution, we have selected the following.

When some Christians, in their zeal for the truth, had reproved Firmilian, the Proconsul of Palestine, for his great idolatry, and were put to death on this account, on the thirteenth of November, in the year 307, a certain young maiden named Ennathas, a native of the city of Scythopolis, came there on the same day, not of her own accord, however, but through compulsion, and, together with the others, boldly laid down her life for the name of Jesus Christ. She was at first most unmercifully treated, indeed, in a manner too shameful and horrible to describe. Finally, when she nevertheless remained steadfast in the confession of her faith, the judge pronounced the sentence of death upon her, namely, that she should be burned alive; and so this pious martyr pressed through the strait gate, leaving her flesh on the posts; which the Lord will afterward crown and reward with glory and majesty. See A. Mell., 1st book, folio 125, column 4, from Euseb., J. Gys., folio 26, column 4. [n269-1]