Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs
180 · Before the division · public-domain-translation
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Documents read in it
- Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs [object Object]
Events it narrates
The court record of the trial at Carthage on 17 July 180, under the proconsul Vigellius Saturninus - question and answer as a clerk took it down, and the oldest dated document of the Latin church. Twelve are sentenced by name. Speratus, asked what is in his chest, answers "Books and epistles of Paul, a just man", which is the earliest notice of Christian books in a Latin record. Read in J. Armitage Robinson's translation of the short Latin recension he found in the British Museum, printed in Ante-Nicene Fathers vol. 9.