Thalelaeus was born in Lebanon. His
father was called Berucius and his mother was called Romila.
Thalelaeus was an eighteen-year old youth, handsome of countenance,
physically tall and with reddish yellow hair. He was a physician by
profession. He suffered for Christ during the reign of Numerian. When
he bravely confessed his faith in Christ the Lord before his
tormenting judge, the judge ordered the two executioners, Alexander
and Asterius, to bore through his knees with a drill, to thread a
rope through the perforated bones and to hang him from a tree. But
God through an invisible power, took away the sight of the
executioners. In place of Thalelaeus they bored through a board and
hung it from a tree. When the judge-torturer found out, he thought
that the executioners did this intentionally and ordered them both to
be flogged. Then Alexander and Asterius, in the midst of their
flogging, cried out: "The Lord is alive to us and, from now on,
we are also becoming Christians. We believe in Christ and suffer for
Him." Upon hearing this, the judge-torturer ordered that both be
beheaded. Then the judge took the drill to bore the knees of
Thalelaeus himself but his hands became paralyzed and he begged
Thalelaeus to save him, which the innocent martyr of Christ did, with
the help of prayer. Following that, Thalelaeus was thrown into water
but appeared alive before his tormentor (for Thalelaeus prayed to God
inwardly to prolong his sufferings that he not die immediately). When
he was thrown before wild beasts, they licked his feet and were
amiable toward him. Finally, Thalelaeus was beheaded and took up his
habitation in life eternal in the year 284 A.D.
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