The life of Sadoth and Companions
He accepted the charge without hesitation, though he well understood the danger, and spent his short time as bishop visiting Christians in secret, strengthening them against the ongoing persecution of the Persian king Shapur.
Not long after, he too was betrayed and arrested, along with a hundred and twenty eight of his clergy and people, including a number of consecrated virgins. They were held in prison and tortured for five months, urged the whole time to abandon Christ for the religion of the Persian magi, but none would yield. Most of his companions were put to death where they were held; Sadoth himself was taken before Shapur, who mocked him for taking up the office of a people the king hated, and Sadoth answered that God alone gives the Church its head, and that the faith could never be extinguished by killing its believers. He was executed on the same ground where Simeon had died before him.
