This document is in the public domain. Copying it is encouraged. THE LIFE OF ST. JANUARIUS Translated by Edward P. Graham, 1909 ACTS OF THE HIEROMARTYR JANUARIUS, BISHOP OF BENEVENTO (Feast Day September 19) In the time of Diocletian, emperor, and in the fifth consulate of Constantine [Constantius], and seventh [probably "fifth"] of Maximian, there was a great persecution of the Christians. At that time Diocletian appointed Timothy, a pagan, governor in the province of Campania and ordered him to offer sacrifices to idols and to compel all who believed in Christ to do the same. It happened as...