Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology. Usuardus, &c. Authority The letter of Dionysius of Alexandria to Fabius of Antioch, in Eusebius, H. E. lib. SCHYRION was hired by one of the rulers (of Alexandria) in the capacity of steward. “ This man was ordered by his employer to sacrifice, but as he would not obey, he was abused by him. Persevering in his purpose, he was treated with indignity; and as he still continued in patient resolution, his employer took a long pole and thrust it through his bowels, and thus slew him” (i.e. by impalement).

S. CHiEREMON, B.M. [Roman Martyrology. Usuardus [a 9th-century monk of Paris who compiled a list of saints for each day], &c. Authority Same as for S. Ischynon, above.] “ Why should I mention the multitudes who wandered in deserts and mountains,” says S. Dionysius in his letter to the bishop of Antioch on the persecution that raged in Alexandria in the reign of Decius [Roman emperor 249–251, who ordered everyone to sacrifice to the gods], u why mention those that perished by hunger and thirst, by frost and diseases, by robbers and wild beasts ? The survivors are the witnesses of their election and their victory. But I will add one fact in illustration. Chaeremon was a very aged bishop of Nilopolis. He, fleeing into the Arabian mountains with his partner, did not return again, nor were the brethren able to learn anything more of him, though search has been made for him. They found neither them nor their bodies. But many have been carried off as slaves by the barbarous Saracens [medieval Christian name for Arab and Muslim peoples] from the same mountains. Some have been ransomed, but others remain among them still, unredeemed.”