The life of Trophimus, Theophilus and Companions
Weakened nearly to death, they were then thrown into a fire, but according to the Church's account they emerged from the flames unharmed, which only strengthened their resolve and their witness before those who watched. Unable to break them by fire, their persecutors had them beheaded.
Little beyond this outline survives of the fifteen martyrs individually; the sources consulted preserve no other names beyond Trophimus and Theophilus, and the Church remembers them together as a single company of witnesses who suffered and confessed as one under the Diocletianic persecution.
