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All three of these martyrs were from Caesarea of Palestine. When the persecution of Christians began, they withdrew from the city to a hut, and there they prayed unceasingly to God, fasting and weeping, that the faith of Christ might spread throughout the whole world and that the persecution of the Church might cease. By a certain slander they were brought to trial, tortured, and tormented to death in the year 304. Thus these glorious virgins were crowned with the martyr's crown.

In the time of Maximian he was condemned to tend cattle at a certain designated place. In order to please Diocletian, who had taken him as co-emperor, Maximian began to build baths in Rome, the so-called Thermae, and drove Christians to this labor as once Pharaoh drove the Jews in Egypt. Many Christians suffered at that time. Among them suffered also the deacon Cyriacus, who had great power over demons and who healed the demoniac daughter of Diocletian, Artemia, and the daughter of the Persian king, Jobia, and baptized them both. At that time Artemia also suffered, and the deacon Sisinius, Smaragdus and Largius, companions of Cyriacus, and the deacon Apronianus, and two newly baptized Roman soldiers Papius and Maurus, and the elder Saturninus and Crescentian, and the blessed virgins Priscilla and Lucina, who from their wealth built tombs for the slain Christian martyrs. Saint Marcellus, the pope, tended cattle for a long time, and finally from hunger, humiliation, and the oppression of soldiers, he breathed his last and surrendered his soul to God.

Marcellinus was the predecessor on the Roman throne to Pope Marcellus. When Emperor Diocletian summoned him and threatened him with torture, he offered sacrifice to the idols, for which the emperor rewarded him with a precious garment. But Marcellinus bitterly repented and began to weep day and night over his denial of Christ, as once did the Apostle Peter. At that time a certain council of bishops was held in Campania. The pope dressed in sackcloth and sprinkled his head with ashes, then entered the council and before all confessed his sin, begging them to judge him. The Fathers told him to judge himself. Then he said: I deprive myself of the priestly rank, of which I am unworthy; and further: let my body after death not be buried but cast to the dogs! This he said, and he pronounced a curse upon anyone who would dare to bury him. Then he went to Emperor Diocletian, cast before him that precious garment, confessed his faith in Christ, and reviled the idols. The enraged emperor ordered him tortured and then killed outside the city, together with three good men: Claudius, Cyrinus, and Antoninus. The bodies of these three were immediately buried, but the body of the pope lay for thirty-six days. Then Saint Peter appeared to the new Pope Marcellus and commanded him to bury the body of Marcellinus, for, he said: "He that humbleth himself shall be exalted."

Abbot of the famous Scetis of Egypt. A disciple of Saint Arsenius and a teacher of many. Many of his sayings and teachings are like guiding stars for monks. Once when barbarians attacked Scetis, the brethren called upon him to flee with them. He answered them: "If God does not care for me, what is the use of living?!" Daniel also said: "The more thy body grows fat, the more thy soul grows lean." He struggled in the cenobium for forty years, and then, in the year 420, he withdrew into the desert. He happened to be in Alexandria when a wicked father-in-law killed his daughter-in-law because of her chastity, the holy Thomais (see April 13), and he with his disciple buried this sufferer.