During the aforesaid persecution under Valerian, three men at Caesarea in Palestine, having shone forth in their confession of Christ, were adorned with a divine martyrdom, becoming food for wild beasts. Of these, one was called Priscus, another Malchus, and the third had the name Alexander. These, it is said, dwelling in the country, at first reproached themselves as careless and slothful, because, while the time was distributing prizes to those who longed with desire for the heavenly, they themselves were neglectful in not snatching beforehand the crown of martyrdom; and having so resolved, they hastened to Caesarea, presented themselves before the judge, and obtained the aforesaid end. Besides these, they relate that a certain woman, during the same persecution and in the same city, contended in a like struggle; but the report holds that she was of the heresy of Marcion.