Translated from the Latin. Story of the last great martyr of Egypt under paganism.

St. Peter of Alexandria became bishop of Alexandria in 300, and was martyred in 311.

St. Peter of Alexandria, also called St. Peter Martyr, combatted Arianism.

Translator's introductory notice to Peter of Alexandria, from Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 6. Brief, but copiously annotated. Unfortunately followed by A. Cleveland Coxe's gratuitous iconoclastic, anti-monastic harangue.

St. Peter, martyr, bishop of Alexandria. From Fr. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints.