Ulpian and Aedesius

About the same time, in the city of Tyre, a young man named Ulpian, after dreadful tortures and the most severe scourgings, was shut up in a raw oxhide with a dog and with one of those poisonous snakes, an asp, and thrown into the sea. That is why I think it right to mention him alongside the martyrdom of Apphianus. [a] Shortly afterward Aedesius, a brother of Apphianus not only in God but also in the flesh, being a son of the same earthly father, suffered as he had, after very many confessions and long tortures in chains, and after the governor had sentenced him to the mines in Palestine. Through it all he bore himself like a true philosopher, for he was more highly educated than his brother and had pursued the study of philosophy. [b]

At last, in the city of Alexandria, he saw the judge who was trying the Christians going beyond all bounds: now insulting holy men in various ways, now handing women of the greatest modesty, and even virgins vowed to God, over to pimps for shameful treatment. Then he did as his brother had done. Finding these things unbearable, he went forward with bold resolve, and by his words and actions covered the judge with shame and disgrace. For this he suffered many kinds of torture, and then died a death like his brother’s, thrown into the sea. But these things, as I said, happened to him a little later.