Died
in 309, He and four companions, Elias, Isaias, Jeremy and Samuel were
Egyptians who visited Christians condemned to work in the mines of
Cilicia during Maximus persecution, to comfort them. Apprehended at the
gates of Caesarea, Palestine, they were brought before the governor, Firmilian and accused of being Christians. They were all tortured and then beheaded. When Porphyry, a servant of St. Pamphilus
demanded that the bodies be buried, he was tortured and then burned to
death when it was found he was a Christian. Seleucus witnessed his death
and applauded his constancy in the face of his terrible death;
whereupon he was arrested by the soldiers involved in the execution,
borught before the governor and was beheaded at Firmilian's order. Feast day Feb. 16.
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