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As he was led to death the man of whom we are speaking being with him
at the end of hiss life, came near being slain by his
fellow-citizens, as if he were the cause of his death. But the
providence of God preserved him at this time also. After Plutarch,
the second martyr among the pupils of Origen was Serenus, who gave
through fire a proof of the faith which he had received. The third
martyr from the same school was Heraclides, and after him the fourth
was Hero. The former of these was as yet a catechumen, and the
latter had but recently been baptized. Both of them were beheaded.
After them, the fifth from the same school proclaimed as an athlete of
piety was another Serenus, who, it is reported, was beheaded, after
a long endurance of tortures. And of women, Herais died while yet a
catechumen, receiving baptism by fire, as Origen himself somewhere
says.
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