From the Prologue of Ochrid
Brothers both in body and in spirit and in occupation. Both were zealous Christians, and by trade stonemasons. They lived in Illyricum. A certain pagan prince employed them in building a pagan temple. It happened during their work that a chip of stone flew off and struck the eye of the priest's son, who was curiously watching the builders at work. Seeing his son blinded and bleeding, the priest began to shout at Florus and Laurus and wanted to beat them. Then the holy brothers said to him that if he would believe in God, in whom they believed, his son would be healed. The priest agreed. Florus and Laurus with tears prayed to the Lord God, the living and only God, and with the sign of the Cross they signed the child's injured eye. And the child was healed at once, and his eye became whole as it had been before. Then the priest Memertinus and his son were baptized, and soon after both suffered for Christ in fire. When Florus and Laurus finished the temple, they placed a cross upon it, invited all the Christians, and consecrated it in the name of the Lord Jesus with an all-night vigil. Learning of this, the governor of Illyricum burned many of those Christians in fire, and cast Florus and Laurus alive into a well, and filled the well with earth. Later their relics were revealed and were transferred to Constantinople. They suffered for Christ and were glorified by Christ, these wondrous brothers, in the second century.
