The prefect Almachius ordered her to be suffocated in her bathroom, but she emerged unharmed, and he sent a soldier to behead her.
The prefect Almachius ordered her to be suffocated in her bathroom, but she emerged unharmed, and he sent a soldier to behead her. Unfortunately, the executioner was incompetent, failing to kill her despite giving her neck three blows, and she lingered for three days before dying. FTP, name this saint, who was betrothed against her will to Valerian, but converted him and his brother Tiburtius to Christianity, whose legend is told by the Second Nun in the Canterbury Tales, best known as the patron saint of music.
The prefect Almachius ordered her to be suffocated in her bathroom, but she emerged unharmed, and he sent a soldier to behead her.
Saint {Cecilia}