{Three hundred Christians, burnt in a furnace. {St. Tertullian, burnt with hot irons. {St. Nemesius, beheaded. {St. Sempronius, Olympius, and Theodulus, burnt. Under Claudius {St. Marius, hung, with a huge weight tied to his II. {feet. {St. Martha, and her children, martyred in different {ways. {SS. Cyprian and Justinian, boiled. {St. Valentine, killed with the sword. {St. Agapitus (aged 15), hung head downwards over {a pan of burning charcoal. Inscribed above {are these words from Wisdom, 'Properavit ut Under Aurelian {educeret illum a seductionibus et iniquitatibus and Numerianus {gentis suæ.' {St. Christina, transfixed through the heart. {St. Columba, burnt. {SS. Chrysanthus and Daria, buried alive. {St. Agnes, bound to a stake, afterwards beheaded. {St. Caius, Pope, beheaded. {St. Emerantia, stoned to death. {Nearly the whole population of Nicomedia martyred {in different ways. {St. Erasmus, laid in a coffin, into which boiling {lead was poured. {St. Blaise, bound to a column, and torn to pieces. {St. Barbara, burnt with hot irons. {St. Eustrathius and his companions, martyred in Under Diocletian {different ways. and Maximianus {St. Vincent, burnt on a gridiron. {SS. Primus and Felicianus, torn by lions. {St. Anastasia, thrown from a rock? {SS. Quattro Incoronati, martyred in various ways. {SS. Peter and Marcellinus, beheaded. {St. Boniface, placed in a dungeon full of boiling {pitch. {St. Lucia, shut up in a well full of serpents. {St. Euphemia, run through with a sword. {SS. Vitus, Modestus, and Crescentius, boiled alive. {St. Sebastian, shot with arrows (which he survived). {SS. Cosmo and Damian, Pantaleon, Saturninus, {Susanna, Gornius, Adrian, and others, in {different ways. {St. Catherine of Alexandria, and others, broken {on the wheel. Under Maxentius {SS. Faustina and Porfirius, burnt with a company {of soldiers. {St. Marcellus, Pope, died worn out by persecution.