Symphorosa

Pilgrimages by Gregory of Nyssa The Passion of

St. Symphorosa and Her Seven Sons by Julius Africanus This is a LibriVox recording.

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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org When Adrian had built a palace and wished to dedicate it by that wicked ceremonial and began to seek responses by sacrifices to idols, and to the demons that dwell in idols, they replied and said, The widow Symphorosa, with her seven sons, wounds us day by day in invoking her God.

If she therefore, together with her sons, shall offer sacrifice, we promise to make good all that you ask.

then adrian ordered her to be seized along with her sons and advised them in courteous terms to consent to offer sacrifices to the idols to him however the blessed simphorosa answered my husband gettilius together with his brother amantius when they were tribunes in thy service suffered different punishments for the name of christ rather than consent to sacrifice to idols and like good athletes they overcame thy demons in death for rather than be prevailed on they chose to be beheaded and suffered death which death being endured for the name of christ gained them temporal ignominy indeed among men of this earth but everlasting honour and glory among the angels and moving now

life with the king eternal in the heavens the emperor adrian said to the holy simphorosa either sacrifice thou along with thy sons to the omnipotent gods or else i shall cause thee to be sacrificed thyself together with thy sons the blessed simphorosa answered and whence is this great good to me that i should be deemed worthy along with my sons to be offered as an oblation

to god The emperor Adrian said, I shall cause thee to be sacrificed to my gods.

But if the Spirit bloweth where He listeth, those, too, who have become believers here are made partakers of that gift, and that according to the proportion of their faith, not in consequence of their pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

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When Adrian had built a palace and wished to dedicate it by that wicked ceremonial and began to seek responses by sacrifices to idols, and to the demons that dwell in idols they replied and said, The widow Symphorosa, with her seven sons, wounds us day by day in invoking her God.

If she therefore, together with her sons, shall offer sacrifice, we promise to make good all that you ask.

Then Adrian ordered her to be seized, along with her sons, and advised them in courteous terms to consent to offer sacrifices to the idols.

To him, however, the blessed Symphorosa answered, My husband, Jetelius, together with his brother Amantius, when they were tribunes in thy service, suffered different punishments for the name of Christ rather than consent to sacrifice to idols.

But if the Spirit bloweth where He listeth, those, too, who have become believers here are made partakers of that gift, and that according to the proportion of their faith, not in consequence of their pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

End of On Pilgrimages by Gregory of Nyssa The Passion of St. Symphorosa and Her Seven Sons by Julius Africanus This is a LibriVox recording.

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When Adrian had built a palace and wished to dedicate it by that wicked ceremonial and began to seek responses by sacrifices to idols, and to the demons that dwell in idols they replied and said, The widow Symphorosa with her seven sons wounds us day by day in invoking her God.

If she therefore, together with her sons, shall offer sacrifice, we promise to make good all that you ask.

Then Adrian ordered her to be seized along with her sons, and advised them in courteous terms to consent to offer sacrifices to the idols.

To him, however, the blessed Symphorosa answered, My husband, Jetelius, together with his brother Amantius, when they were tribunes in thy service, suffered different punishments for the name of Christ rather than consent to sacrifice to idols.