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| Concerning the Great Confessors who survived.
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Chapter X.—Concerning
the Great Confessors who survived.
Since the persecution had
recently ceased, many excellent Christians, and many of the confessors
who had survived, adorned the churches: among these were Hosius,1089
| 1089For a further account of Hosius, cf. Soc. i. 7, 13;
ii. 20, 29, 31; iii. 7.
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bishop of Cordova; Amphion,1090
| 1090Amphion and Lespus are mentioned as bishops of
Cilicia in Athan. Ep. ad Episc. Æg. et Lib.; another
Amphion occurs in Athan. Ap. cont. Arian, 7, as bishop in
Nicomedia.
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bishop of Epiphania in Cilicia; Maximus, who succeeded Macarius in the
church of Jerusalem; and Paphnutius,1091
| 1091Ruf. H. E. i. 4; Soc. i. 8, 11; Theodoret,
H. E. i. 7.
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an Egyptian. It is said by this latter God wrought many miracles,
controlling demons, and giving him grace to heal divers kinds of
sickness. This Paphnutius, and Maximus, whom we just mentioned, were
among the number of confessors whom Maximinus condemned to work in the
mines, after having deprived them of the right eye, and the use of the
left leg.
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