Dimas, when he met the Sacred Family in the desert and gave them shelter, was about to twenty five to thirty years old. And in the opinion of several authors he was about 55 to 60 when he perished at the cross, and should have lived in crime for thirty to forty years. After being chased down by the Roman Justice, that tried to free Judea of the great bandits that infested it, and above all the ones that attacked the Romans and provoked seditions.

DIMAS and GESTAS were caught around Jericho, and there they were sentenced. PILATOS gave order that they should be taken to Jerusalem to be flagellated and crucified, serving as an example to the dangerous thieves in the surroundings.

DIMAS and GESTAS were hand and feet cuffed, and thrown in a horrible public prison in Jerusalem, near the Pretoria of Pilatos. In this underground infected dungeons, the condemned was wrapped in chains and maintained next to the walls by iron wells. From prison the condemned goes out to flagellation and crucifixion. DISMAS was cruelly flagellated.