# Cointha, A Believing Woman, Dragged Through The Streets Of Alexandria, And Stoned For The Testimony Of The Son Of God, A. D. 252.

252 · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: COINTHA, A BELIEVING WOMAN, DRAGGED THROUGH THE STREETS OF ALEXANDRIA, AND STONED FOR THE TESTIMONY OF THE SON OF GOD, A. D. 252.

Source heading; not independently verified

Afterwards, an honorable believing woman, called
Cointha, or, as others call her, Quinta, was seized
and brought into a temple of idols, and placed before
these, in order to compel her to worship them.
But when she recoiled with abhorrence from the
idols, they tied her feet together, and dragged her
through all the streets of the city of Alexandria,
beat her with rods, and as some writers have recorded,
rubbed her naked body against mill-stones.
When they had dragged, beaten, and rubbed her
long enough, so that her body was completely lacerated,
they at last dragged her into the suburbs,
and there pelted her with stones until she was covered
with them. Compare Euseb. with Abr. Mell.
and Joh. Gys. in the places referred to above concerning
the martyr Metras.





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