السيرة
The Italians in Pozzuoli, Naples, the martyr's homeland, commemorate him. He is called Artemas and was wrongly known as Antimasius. The date of his martyrdom is not known.
Artimas was a pious boy who loved the Lord Christ and lived in Pozzuoli, in southern Italy. He was enrolled in the school of a pagan man named Cathegeta.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks, and so the boy's conduct appeared different from that of the rest of his fellows. They loved him and grew attached to him; and when he declared his faith to his fellows, his teacher came to know of it and began to rebuke him and threaten him with the rod.
With courage the boy said, "If you strike with the lash, you will not strike the faith that is deep within me." The teacher was enraged and ordered the pupils to punish him, these who had been bred to the love of bloodshed in the spectacles held in the public theaters. They fell upon him with their iron styluses, which were used for carving upon tablets of wax, and they kept stabbing him until he died.
He is commemorated on the 25th of June