Cointha, a Believing Woman, in the Year 252

Afterwards an honorable believing woman named Cointha, or, as others call her, Quinta, was seized and brought into a temple of idols, and placed before them, in order to force her to worship them. But when she drew back from the idols in horror, 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 millstones. 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. [n193-1]