Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 01 — Chapter V.--Potamiæna. [1799]
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 1
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1. Basilides [1800] may be counted the seventh of these. He led to martyrdom the celebrated Potamiæna, who is still famous among the people of the country for the many things which she endured for the preservation of her chastity and virginity. For she was blooming in the perfection of her mind and her physical graces. Having suffered much for the faith of Christ, finally after tortures dreadful and terrible to speak of, she with her mother, Marcella, [1801] was put to death by fire. 2. They say that the judge, Aquila by name, having inflicted severe tortures upon her entire body, at …
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