And he was very wrath on account of the beasts' guardianship,
and at last bade the heathen executioners
go in with swords and slay the Saints.
When this was done, the judge bade men draw
the Saints' bodies to the idol,
that the Christians might behold
and take warning by them, and bow to the gods,
lest they should be as cruelly killed.
Then after three days came a certain deacon to that place,
called Quirinus, and he took the holy bodies
by night, and brought them to his house,
and laid them secretly in a leaden coffin,
with great reverence, and there they lay,
concealed from men, for a long time, until Constantine,
the Christian emperor, afterwards succeeded to the kingdom;
and they were then found through Christ's revelation.
Ye have now heard how the holy kings
renounced their kingdom for the faith of Christ,
and gave up their own lives for Him.
Take you example thereby that ye turn not from Christ
for any hardness, that ye may have the eternal life.
The letter of Cheist to Abgarus.
Now we are speaking about kings, we will lengthen this discourse,
and tell you yet about a certain king, who was named Abgarus,
a certain blessed king in the Syrian land.
He lay bedridden at the very time
when our Saviour Christ was in this life.
He had enquired concerning our Saviour's miracles,
and sent thereupon speedily to him this letter:
'Abgarus greeteth humbly the good Saviour
