Basileus, Bishop at Pontus, in the Year 316

When it was thought that the earlier persecutions, especially the one under Diocletian and Maximian, should have quenched the bloodthirstiness of the great, Lucinius, who held the imperial throne in the east, was still not satisfied with it. For when the winds of blood, fanned on by Satan, blew through his head, he had various pious Christians put to death without mercy, namely

Basileus, bishop of the church of Christ at Amasen, in Pontus; Ammon, a deacon; and about forty women, whom he had killed, some by fire, and some by water; as well as various other pious martyrs, whom he had put into the cold ice, thus causing their death. This happened about the tenth year of the reign of Lucianius, which agrees with the year 316. Introduction, folio 44, columns 1 and 2.