(DATE UNCERTAIN.)
[From the ancient Acts in Bollandus and Ruinart.]
In Egypt thirty-seven Christian soldiers entered into a zealous
confederacy to spread the Gospel throughout the country. Their leader
was one Paul. They divided themselves into four companies. Paul and nine
others went eastwards. Recumbus, with eight more, went to the north;
Theonas, with the like number, to the south; and Popias, with the
remainder, to the west. The Governor of Egypt, alarmed at the report he
heard of this confederacy, sent troops to apprehend them, and when they
were brought before him he ordered them to instant execution; those who
went to the east and south, to be burnt; those who went to the north to
be beheaded, and those who travelled west to be crucified. They
suffered on the 18th January, but in what year is not mentioned.