'Our soul is escaped out of the snare as a sparrow,
the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
The help of us all is in the Name of the Lord,
of Him who made the heavens and the earth.'
Then said they 'Amen,' and gave up their ghosts,
and went thus martyred to the Almighty Lord,
who had before succoured them in perils,
and had ever strengthened- them until they came to Him.
Then did the judge as the devil had commanded,
and bade burn them all in a very large fire,
but the bones remained after the burning;
which the heathen then threw into a wide stream.
This was straightway revealed after three days
to a certain holy bishop in the same city.
To him came in a dream the true saints of God,
and said whither their bones had been carried.
Then the bishop arose from his bed,
and went with his priests to the river by night.
Then shone the bones as brightly as stars
in the water, and they wondered thereat;
they had all come to [i. e. fallen into] a deep place,
and not one [bone] was lost in the flood;
and the light revealed wheresoever they lay.
Then the bishop brought all the holy bones
into a seemly shrine, and laid them up
in the orthodox Church to the praise of the Almighty,
to Whom be glory and worship to all ages of ages. Amen.
What is ever lost to Almighty God?
If any unhappy man be disobedient to his Creator,
and will not continue in well-doing unto the end,
but forsaketh his faith and the dear Lord,
then shall another be chosen for the crown
which the other would not earn by labour,
even as ye have heard in this lection
that one of the warders became associated with the saints,
