# Theodosia, A Godfearing Maiden Of The City Of Tyre, Who Came To Comfort The Bound Martyrs, Drowned In The Sea At Cesarea, A. D. 306.

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When the fifth year of the tenth persecution had
come, on the second day of the month of April, the
Sunday of the resurrection of our Savior, Theodosia,
a godfearing maiden of the city of Tyre, about
eighteen years old, came to some bound martyrs at
Cesarea, as they were standing before the tribunal,
to receive their sentence of death. Her reason in
doing so was affectionately to greet them, and to
comfort them in their extremity.

Thereupon she was instantly seized by the soldiers,
and brought before the Proconsul, who forthwith
caused her to be maltreated as though he had
been bereft of reason; for he did not have her tortured
with all manner of dreadful torments, on her
sides only, as was generally the custom, but he also
caused her breasts to be torn open to the very
bones, and then cut off. All this she suffered steadfastly
and with a happy countenance; but when by
reason of the intensity of the pain she could scarcely
draw her breath any longer, so that it seemed that
she would soon cease to live, the Proconsul had her
thrown into the sea; and thus this faithful heroine
of Jesus Christ was numbered among her slain fellow-brethren
and sisters. See A. Mell., 1st book,
fol. 124, col. 2, 3, from Euseb., lib. 8. Also, J. Gys.
on the name Theodosia.



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