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Works Salaminius Hermias Sozomenus (Gestorben um 450) Historia ecclesiastica The Ecclesiastical History, of Salaminius Hermias Sozomenus

Chapter X. Concerning the Great Confessors who survived.

Since the persecution had recently ceased, many excellent Christians, and many of the confessors who had survived, adorned the churches: among these were Hosius, 1 bishop of Cordova; Amphion, 2 bishop of Epiphania in Cilicia; Maximus, who succeeded Macarius in the church of Jerusalem; and Paphnutius, 3 an Egyptian. It is said by this latter God wrought many miracles, controlling demons, and giving him grace to heal divers kinds of sickness. This Paphnutius, and Maximus, whom we just mentioned, were among the number of confessors whom Maximinus condemned to work in the mines, after having deprived them of the right eye, and the use of the left leg.


  1. For a further account of Hosius, cf. Soc. i. 7, 13; ii. 20, 29, 31; iii. 7.  ↩

  2. Amphion and Lespus are mentioned as bishops of Cilicia in Athan. Ep. ad Episc. Æg. et Lib. ; another Amphion occurs in Athan. Ap. cont. Arian, 7 , as bishop in Nicomedia.  ↩

  3. Ruf. H. E. i. 4; Soc. i. 8, 11; Theodoret, H. E. i. 7.  ↩

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