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learned of this, he had Peleus burned alive along with the other leaders ( Nilus,

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and

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), and the Christians dispersed to mines in

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. He is venerated as a saint in the

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Christians martyred during the reign of Diocletian 4th-century Christian martyrs {{saint-stub

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