They were arrested there and brought to Antinoe in Upper Egypt, where they were beheaded along with Cluthus, a physician and priest, and another 3,685 companions.
[2] These included the following priests: Abadir and Iraja had a church dedicated to them in Asyut in Egypt.
The text of their Passion exists in both Sahidic and Bohairic Coptic and fragments can be found at the National Library, Vienna, Wiener Papyrussammlung, K2563 a-l, ed.
[4] A summary of their lives, commemorated on Tout 28 (October 8), can be found in the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion.
[5] Hagiographer and church historian Frederick George Holweck considers the story "spurious".