A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 108
him the joys of heaven, and declared that she preferred thedeath Avhich would give her these to a life of idolatry. She Avastaken to prison, and two sisters, Calista and Christeta, aa-Iio hadrenounced Christianity through fear of torture, Avere sent to induceDorothea to folloAv their example. But… … She encouraged them through all, and was thencondemned to be tortured andbeheaded. She endured thetortures with great bravery. Asshe was led to execution, ayoung lawyer, called Theophilus,jeered her and asked her to sendhim fruits from the gardens towhich she was going. She toldhim that his request…
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