The Martyrdom of SS. Cyprian and Justina

The saints pray in a vat of boiling fluids, attended on the right by Count Eutolmius in a fur robe, his cousin Terentius in a red hat, and Athanasius in a green robe. The latter thought he could show the power of the gods by entering the vat himself. Unfortunately, as soon as he approached the fire it leapt out and destroyed him.1

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NOTES

1 Acta Sanctorum, September vol. 7, 243-44. Also see, without the names of Terentius and Athanasius, this section of the Golden Legend's account.