Peter Apselamus, a Young Man, in the Year 308

Shortly afterward (on the 11th of January), a pious man called Peter, and surnamed Apselamus, was arrested. He was a native of Amea, a village near Eleutheropolis. For some time he lived as a recluse, having retired into solitude to give himself over to divine meditations.

Though the judge and the other members of the tribunal had begged him again and again to have compassion on himself and his youth (for he was still in the bloom of life), he disregarded it all, putting his entire confidence in the living and true God, whom he loved more than all this world contains, indeed, more than his own life. Finally he let his confidence in Christ, his Savior, be tried, as precious gold, by fire, and was burned alive at Caesarea, for the name of Jesus Christ, having commended his soul into the hands of God. Idem, Ibidem, from Euseb., book 8. [n272-1]