MICHELE PATRI
Senator
EUDOXIA OF TUSCIA SCOURGED TO DEATH
This Eudoxia was a noble and pious woman from Tuscia, a region North of Rome comprising the Southern part of the former Etruscian empire. She was whipped to death for her faith in 306.
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Public Executions In The Arena
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Hair and Nails
You are the only non spammy reference I could find for Benedicta of Sens. Where did it say in the train that she was crucified?
MICHELE PATRI
Senator
Adriaen Collaert, 1608 (illustration for P. Bartoloméo Ricci SJ, “Triumphus Jesu Christi Crucifixi”; also Pedro de Bivero, “Sacrum sanctuarium crucis et patientiae crucifixorum et cruciferorum”, 1634): Benedicta/Beata tied to a cross.
(Kirishitan Bunko, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan)
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MICHELE PATRI
Senator
HUSBAND AND WIFE ARE CONDEMNED TO DIE BY COMBUSTIO LENTA FOR ARSON
INCENDIUM, the crime of setting any object on fire, by which the property of a manis endangered. It was thus a more general term than the modern Arson, which is limited to the act of wilfully and maliciously burning the property of another. The crime of incendium was the subject of one of the laws of the Twelve Tables, which inflicted a severe punishment on the person who set fire to property maliciously (sciens, prudens), but if it was done by accident (casu, id est, neglegentia). We accordingly find mention of execution by the sword, burning alive, condemnation to the mines and to public works, deportatio, relegatio,flogging, &c., as punishments inflicted on account of incendium.
MICHELE PATRI
Senator
SEX SLAVE CONDEMNED TO DIE ON THE CROSS FOR REBELLING AGAINST HER MASTER
Their work complete, the men take a few moments to fondle her crucified body. The slave desperately tries to escape their touch, but the nails hold her totally exposed as she hangs from the cross...
MICHELE PATRI
Senator
PETRONILLAOF ROME CRUCIFIED AND TORTURED TO DEATH
Petronilla's grave as situated in the Via Ardeatina near Sts. Nereus and Achilleus. The excavations in the catacomb of Domitilla have completely confirmed these notices. The martyr's name was Aurelia Petronilla. The second name comes from Petro or Petronius, and, as the name of the great-grandfather ofthe Christian consul, Flavius Clemens, was Titus Flavius Petronius, it is very possible that Petronilla was a relative of the Christian Flavii, who were descended from the senatorial family of the Aurelii. This theory would also explain why Petronilla was buried in the catacomb of the Flavian Domitilla. Petronilla may have been executed by crucifixion during the persecution of Domitian, perhaps not till later.
Petronilla's grave as situated in the Via Ardeatina near Sts. Nereus and Achilleus. The excavations in the catacomb of Domitilla have completely confirmed these notices. The martyr's name was Aurelia Petronilla. The second name comes from Petro or Petronius, and, as the name of the great-grandfather ofthe Christian consul, Flavius Clemens, was Titus Flavius Petronius, it is very possible that Petronilla was a relative of the Christian Flavii, who were descended from the senatorial family of the Aurelii. This theory would also explain why Petronilla was buried in the catacomb of the Flavian Domitilla. Petronilla may have been executed by crucifixion during the persecution of Domitian, perhaps not till later.
MICHELE PATRI
Senator
CATHARINA OF ALEXANDRIA TORTURED
Catharina was of noble descent, well educated and even at the age of 18 versed in science and rhetorics. She used her capabilities well in discussions with pagan philosophers and converted many to the Christian faith, to the dismay of the pagan authorities of Alexandria (Egypt). During the persecution of Maxentius she was imprisoned and tortured in various ways, then sentenced to a particularly cruel death: She was going to be tortured to death on a wheel. However, the wheel broke , and the dismayed executioners finally had to kill her “the noble way” by beheading her with a sword.
Catharina was of noble descent, well educated and even at the age of 18 versed in science and rhetorics. She used her capabilities well in discussions with pagan philosophers and converted many to the Christian faith, to the dismay of the pagan authorities of Alexandria (Egypt). During the persecution of Maxentius she was imprisoned and tortured in various ways, then sentenced to a particularly cruel death: She was going to be tortured to death on a wheel. However, the wheel broke , and the dismayed executioners finally had to kill her “the noble way” by beheading her with a sword.