 They were ordered to be arrested by Rictius Varus, the "praefectus-praetorii" in Gaul.The two saints hid themselves (tradition holds in a cave in a forest near Soissons) but were eventually caught, and then tortured and beheaded on the high road leading to Soissons.Rufinus is one of the 140 Colonnade saints which adorn St. Peter's Square.