St. Euphemia
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- Christians are captured and persecuted
- The arrest
- Persecution
- NO!
- In the time of Tsar Diokletian, Christians were persecuted, captured and killed. A young girl called Euphemia from Chalcedon, a town in Asia Minor was among them.
- Torture
- When Euphemia was 15 years old, she was arrested by Diocletian's soldiers for refusal to offer sacrifices to Ares.
- Death
- Euphemia refused to give up Christianity. This led to her fatal torture.
- After Death
- The soldiers started to torture on Euphemia. She experienced many methods of torture.
- After being tortured and surviving, she was thrown to the lions. The lions killed her but did not devour her. her death occurred on September 16, 304 AD.
- Her body was preserved until 620 when the town was captured by the Persians. The sarcophagus with her body was moved to Constantinople, and placed in a church which Tsar Constantine built in her honour.
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