A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York: Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge : Riverside Press · leaf 109
her with death if she would not worship the idols. She depicted I to him the joys of heaven, and declared that she preferred thedeath which would give her these to a life of idolatry. She wastaken to prison, and two sisters, Calista and Christeta, who hadrenounced Christianity through fear of… … 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 Theopliilus,jeered her and asked her to sendhim fruits from the ij-ardens towhich she was groino;. She toldhim that his…
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