27. In the time of Tertullian and Clemens of Alexandria the
glory of martyrdom was confined to St. Peter, St. Paul, and
St. James. It was gradually bestowed on the rest of the
apostles by the more recent Greeks, who prudently selected
for the theatre of their preaching and sufferings some
remote country beyond the limits of the Roman empire. See
Mosheim, p. 81; and Tillemont, Memoires Ecclesiastiques,
tom. i. part. iii.