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E07738: Gregory of Tours, in his Histories (2.2), describes the martyrdom of an unnamed girl in Spain by the Vandals, c. 420s. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 575/594.
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posted on 2019-08-21, 00:00 authored by dlambertGregory of Tours, Histories (Historiae) 2.2
Post multas quaestiones, post ablatus terrenarum divitiarum thesaurus, cum ad hoc frangi non possit, ut beatam scinderit Trinitatem, ad rebaptizandum invita deducitur. Cumque in illud caenosum lavacrum vi cogeretur inmergi ac proclamaret: 'Patrem cum Filio ac Spiritum sanctum unius credo esse substantiae essentiaeque', digno aquas unguine cunctas infecit, id est fluxu ventris aspersit. Exhinc ad legitimam deductam quaestionem, post aeculeos, post flammas et ungulas, Christo domino capitis decisione decatur.
'She was tortured repeatedly and all her earthly possessions were removed from her, but her will was not broken by this and she would not renounce the Holy Trinity. As she was dragged off to be re-baptized against her will and compelled to suffer immersion in the filthy font, she shouted: "I believe the Father with the Son and the Holy Ghost to be of one substance." As she said this she fittingly stained all the water with her blood, that is, splashed it with the flow from her stomach. Then she was submitted to a legal interrogation, and tortured by the rack, the flames and the pincers. Finally she was consecrated to Christ our Lord by having her head cut off.'
Text: Krusch and Levison 1951, 40. Translation: Thorpe 1974, 107-108, adapted.
Post multas quaestiones, post ablatus terrenarum divitiarum thesaurus, cum ad hoc frangi non possit, ut beatam scinderit Trinitatem, ad rebaptizandum invita deducitur. Cumque in illud caenosum lavacrum vi cogeretur inmergi ac proclamaret: 'Patrem cum Filio ac Spiritum sanctum unius credo esse substantiae essentiaeque', digno aquas unguine cunctas infecit, id est fluxu ventris aspersit. Exhinc ad legitimam deductam quaestionem, post aeculeos, post flammas et ungulas, Christo domino capitis decisione decatur.
'She was tortured repeatedly and all her earthly possessions were removed from her, but her will was not broken by this and she would not renounce the Holy Trinity. As she was dragged off to be re-baptized against her will and compelled to suffer immersion in the filthy font, she shouted: "I believe the Father with the Son and the Holy Ghost to be of one substance." As she said this she fittingly stained all the water with her blood, that is, splashed it with the flow from her stomach. Then she was submitted to a legal interrogation, and tortured by the rack, the flames and the pincers. Finally she was consecrated to Christ our Lord by having her head cut off.'
Text: Krusch and Levison 1951, 40. Translation: Thorpe 1974, 107-108, adapted.
History
Evidence ID
E07738Saint Name
Martyrs, unnamed or name lost : S00060Related Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - Other narrative texts (including Histories)Language
- Latin