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Martyrdom of St. Domnina and Her Two Daughters   From Eusebius:
Ecclesiastical History, BOOK 8, Chapter 12   A certain holy
person,--in soul admirable for virtue, in body a woman, -- who
was illustrious beyond all in Antioch for wealth and family and
reputation, had brought up in the principles of religion her two
daughters, who were now in the freshness and bloom of life.
Since great envy was excited on their account, every means was
used to find them in their concealment; and when it was
ascertained that they were away, they were summoned deceitfully
to Antioch. Thus they were caught in the nets of the soldiers.
When the woman saw herself and her daughters thus helpless, and
knew the things terrible