{"id":2225,"date":"2020-11-20T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:16:24","slug":"61-phocas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2020\/11\/61-phocas\/","title":{"rendered":"61. Phocas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1-Phocus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/1-Phocus.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"2013\/04\/1-Phocus.png\" width=\"460\" height=\"317\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\nPhocus, bishop of Sineppe, thrown into a lime kiln filled with boiling water in Pontus, AD 118<br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p class=\"large\">Phocas, Bishop of Pontus, Put To Death In A Lime-Kiln, And In Boiling Water, For The Name Of Jesus Christ, At Sinope, About The Year 118<\/p>\n<p>Phocas, a son of Pamphilius, the first bishop of the church in Pontus in the city of Sinope, on being brought, in the time of Trajan, before Africanus, the Governor of Pontus, who urged him to sacrifice upon the alter of Neptune, steadfastly refused to do this; on account of which he was sentenced by the Governor to die for the name of Christ; which death he suffered after many pains and torments, and was thus numbered with his slain fellow brethren. Regarding the death of this man, see A. Mell., 1st book of the Hist, dervervolg. in Mart., fol. 27, col. 1, ex Adone, in Comment. At. 6. Aster. Orat. de Phoca. Also, concerning the time of his death, for the year 118, see Joh. Gysii Hist. Mart., fol. 15, col. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Touching the manner of his death, P. J. Twisck gives the following account: &#8220;Phocas, in Pontus, refusing to sacrifice to the gods, was thrust, according to the command of Emperor Trajan, and for the name of Christ, into a lime-kiln full of glowing coals, then cast into boiling water and thus killed. P. J. Twisck, Chron., 2d book, for the year 1-18,1 p. 37, col. 2. from Adon. Vinnens., lib. 6, fol. 166, Vinefol. 519.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"2225\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phocus, bishop of Sineppe, thrown into a lime kiln filled with boiling water in Pontus, AD 118 Phocas, Bishop of Pontus, Put To Death In A Lime-Kiln, And In Boiling Water, For The Name Of Jesus Christ, At Sinope, About The Year 118 Phocas, a son of Pamphilius, the first bishop of the church in Pontus in the city of Sinope, on being brought, in the time of Trajan, before Africanus, the Governor of Pontus, who urged him to sacrifice upon the alter of Neptune, steadfastly refused to do this; on account of which he was sentenced by the Governor to die for the name of Christ; which death he suffered after many pains and torments, and was thus numbered with his slain fellow brethren. Regarding the death of this man, see A. Mell., 1st book of the Hist, dervervolg. in Mart., fol. 27, col. 1, ex Adone, in Comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":14205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[1232,1226,1233],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thieleman-j-van-braght-martyrs-mirror","tag-baptist-history","tag-gospel-preachers","tag-martyrdom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17110,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/17110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}