Passion of the Scillitan Martyrs

An official-style record of the trial at Carthage, on 17 July AD 180, of a group of Christians from Scilli before the proconsul Saturninus, ending in their execution by the sword. Among the oldest dated documents of Latin Christianity and of North African Christianity; asked what was in their chest, Speratus answered: "Books and epistles of Paul, a just man."