# Apollonia, An Aged Virgin, After Many Torments Burned Alive For The Evangelical Truth, At Alexandria, A. D. 252.

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Apollonia was an aged virgin, whom the enemies
of the truth apprehended, and with their fists and
blows in the face, knocked every tooth out of her
head. In the meantime a large fire of wood was
kindled, and they threatened to burn her alive, if
she would not worship the gods, and forsake Christ.
But notwithstanding this miserable death, she would
rather go into the fire, and lose her temporal life,
than save it by abandoning Christ and losing her
soul.

Touching the manner of her death, and her great
willingness to die, A. Mellinus makes this statement:
“This virgin was sentenced to be burned, or
to blaspheme the name of Christ; but as she abhorred
the latter, she wished to show that she was
ready and willing to die for Christ.” See Eusebius,
Mellinus, and Gysius, in the books and on the
pages referred to in connection with the martyrdom
of Metras and Cointha.



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