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The Acts of Paul 6

Apocryphal Acts

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In the mines where Paul was condemned, Longinus and Firmilla had a daughter, Frontina, who had died, and whose body was to be cast down from a rock because she had become a Christian. And Paul worked fasting, in great cheerfulness, with the prisoners.

2And on the third day the soldiers brought forth Frontina upon a bier, and all the city followed after her, weeping. But when Paul had taken the daughter in his arms, he groaned unto the Lord Jesus Christ because of the sorrow of Firmilla, and cast himself on his knees, praying for Frontina.

3In that hour Frontina rose up alive. And the whole multitude was afraid, and fled. Paul took the hand of the daughter and led her through the city unto the house of Longinus, and the whole multitude said with one voice: God is one, who hath made heaven and earth, who hath granted life unto the maiden through Paul.

About The Acts of Paul

An apocryphal or pseudepigraphal text — outside the canon of the Western churches, yet widely circulated among ancient Jews and Christians. Published here from a public-domain translation, edited for continuous reading.