The preaching and martyrdom of Paul and Mark

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[...] to Illyricum and Italy and Spain, where his epistles with wisdom are also found among us. During the reign of Nero, son of Claudius, he was beheaded in the city of Rome, having been martyred under Epiphanius, before the third Kalends of July; and there he was buried near the holy apostle Peter, and they are there even until today in Christ.

The martyrdom of Paul the apostle. During the reign of Nero Caesar, Paul the apostle was martyred in that very place, having his head cut off by the sword in the thirty-sixth year of the salvation, having fought the good fight in Rome on the fifth day in the month of Panemus of the Syromacedonians, who is called Epiphanius by the Egyptians, but by the Romans in the month of June before the three Kalends of July, by which day the holy apostle was completed in his own martyrdom in the sixty-ninth year of the presence of our Savior Jesus Christ. Thus, the total time from which he was martyred until this present consulate is three hundred and thirty years, in the fourth year of Arcadius and the third of Honorius, the two Augustan emperors, in the ninth Indiction of the fifteen-year period, on the nineteenth day of the month of June.

Mark the evangelist was a Cyrenian from Libya, and he preached the gospel to Alexandria and all their surrounding region as far as Pentapolis and throughout all Egypt; having been given by the apostle Peter, he shared the mystery of piety in the great city of Alexandria, having been dragged by ropes, and he passed away and was burned by the idol-worshipping Greeks in the places called Boukoloi, where he was laid up and is there even until today; and the day of his commemoration is the Lord's Pharmouthi, which is April.

Mark the evangelist and first bishop of Alexandria preached the gospel of the Lord to Alexandria and all its surrounding region, from Egypt as far as Pentapolis; during the reign of Trajan in Alexandria, having been seized by the neck and dragged from the places called Boukoloi to the places called Angeloi, there he was burned by fire by the idol-worshippers in the month of Pharmouthi the 34th, and there he was buried in the Boukoloi.

Mark the evangelist in Alexandria [...]

Greek

ἕως τοῦ Ἰλλυρικοῦ καὶ τῆς Ἰταλίας καὶ Ἱσπανίας, οὗ καὶ ἐπιστολαὶ μετὰ σοφίας παρ' ἡμῖν φέρονται. Ἐπὶ δὲ Νέρωνος υἱοῦ Κλαυδίου βα 115 σιλέως ἐν πόλει Ῥώμῃ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀπετμήθη, ἐμαρτύρησεν Ἐπιφὶ εʹ, πρὸ γʹ Καλανδῶν Ἰουλίων· καὶ ἐκεῖ ἐτάφη πλησίον τοῦ ἁγίου ἀποστόλου Πέτρου, ἐκεῖ εἰσιν ἕως σήμερον ἐν Χριστῷ. Μαρτύριον Παύλου τοῦ ἀποστόλου. Ἐπὶ Νέρωνος τοῦ Καίσαρος Ῥωμαίων ἐμαρτύρησεν αὐτόθι Παῦλος ὁ ἀποστόλος ξίφει τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποτμηθεὶς ἐν τῷ τριακοστῷ καὶ ἕκτῳ ἔτει τοῦ σωτηρίου πάθους, τὸν καλὸν ἀγῶνα ἀγωνισάμενος ἐν Ῥώμῃ πέμπτῃ ἡμέρᾳ κατὰ Συρομακεδόνας Πανέμου μηνός, ὅστις λέγεται παρ' Αἰγυπτίοις Ἐπιφί, παρὰ δὲ Ῥωμαίοις πρὸ τριῶν Καλανδῶν Ἰουλίων μηνὶ Ἰουνίῳ, καθ' ἣν ἐτελειώθη ὁ ἅγιος ἀπόστολος τῷ κατ' αὐτὸν μαρτυρίῳ ἑξηκοστῷ καὶ ἐννάτῳ ἔτει τῆς τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ παρουσίας. Ἐστὶν οὖν ὁ πᾶς χρόνος, ἐξ οὗ ἐμαρτύρησε τριακόσια τριάκοντα ἔτη μέχρι τῆς παρούσης ταύτης ὑπατίας, τετάρτης μὲν Ἀρκαδίου, τρίτης δὲ Ὁνωρίου τῶν δύο ἀδελφῶν αὐτοκρατόρων Αὐγούστων, ἐννάτης ἰνδικτίωνος τῆς πεντεκαιδεκαετηρικῆς περιόδου μηνὸς Ἰουνίου εἰκοστῆς ἐννάτης ἡμέρας. ιδʹ. Μάρκος ὁ εὐαγγελιστὴς ἦν μὲν Κυρηναῖος τῆς Λιβύης, ἐκήρυξε δὲ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον Ἀλεξανδρεῦσι καὶ πάσῃ τῇ περιχώρῳ αὐτῶν ἕως Πενταπόλεως καὶ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ Αἰγύπτῳ ἐκδοθὲν ὑπὸ Πέτρου τοῦ ἀποστόλου μετέδωκε τὸ τῆς εὐσε 116 βείας μυστήριον ἐν τῇ μεγαλοπόλει Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ συρθεὶς ἐν σχοινίοις ἐτελεύτησε καὶ τεφρωθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν εἰδωλομανῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐν τοῖς Βουκόλου τόποις κατετέθη καί ἐστιν ἕως σήμερον, ἐστὶ δὲ ἡ ἡμέρα τῆς κοινήσεως αὐτοῦ Φαρμουθὶ κύριε, ὅ ἐστιν Ἀπρίλλιος. Μάρκος ὁ εὐαγγελιστὴς καὶ πρῶτος Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐπίσκοπος Ἀλεξανδρεῦσι καὶ πάσῃ τῇ περιχώρᾳ αὐτῆς ἐκήρυξε τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τοῦ κυρίου, ἀπὸ Αἰγύπτου καὶ μέχρι Πενταπόλεως· ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς βασιλείας Τραιανοῦ ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ Βουκόλων λαβὼν κατὰ τοῦ τραχήλου καὶ συρεὶς ἀπὸ τῶν καλουμένων Βουκόλου τόπων ἕως τῶν καλουμένων Ἀγγέλων, ἐκεῖ ἐκάη πυρὶ ἀπὸ τῶν εἰδωλομανῶν μηνὶ Φαρμουθὶ λʹ καὶ ἐκεῖ ἐτάφη ἐν τοῖς Βουκόλου. Μάρκος ὁ εὐαγγελιστὴς Ἀλεξανδρεῦσι

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Discover the journeys and martyrdoms of the apostles as recorded by Epiphanius of Salamis.

Original English Translation of Epiphanius of Salamis’s Index apostolorum — new OET from PG 41–43 Greek.

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Copy-text PG 41–43 (Khazarzar) (Greek)

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