Chrysanthus answered him; ' Thou needst not ran on thy feet
but walk by faith, in order to know God;
He is so much the more present to each man
as he the more seeketh Him with true faith.'
Then Chrysanthus instructed them until they believed in God,
namely, Claudius and his wife, called Hilaria,
and their two sons, Nason and Maurus;
and many of their kinsmen consented to baptism,
and the seventy soldiers, whom Claudius had charge of,
were baptized with their friends that day.
Then they all continued glorifying their Lord,
and diligently learned their faith from Chrysanthus,
and wished that they might suffer torment for Christ.
It will be too long to write the wonders which they performed,
all in order, because we will hasten quickly
to tell you men how they were martyred.
Numerianus, the emperor, the persecutor of the Christians,
when it became known to him that Claudius believed,
and all the soldiers had become Christians;
then he commanded to take Claudius and lead him to the sea,
and throw him out bound to a hewn stone;
he bade them afterwards behead the seventy soldiers
unless any of them would relinquish his faith;
but they all hastened with constancy to death,
and Claudius' two sons said that they had been
baptized unto Christ, and would undergo death
together with the soldiers, for faith in Christ.
So they were slain together for Christ's sake;
and the blessed Hilaria was also conducted
to her martyrdom from the wicked prefect.
Then she begged the executioners who were leading her to death
that she might first of all pray in haste;
and she did so, and received the Lord's body,
and in her prayers departed from the world to Christ.
After this the holy man Chrysauthus
