Theodosia, a God Fearing Maiden of the City of Tyre

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 God fearing maiden of the city of Tyre, about eighteen years old, came to some bound martyrs at Caesarea, as they were standing before the tribunal to receive their sentence of death. Her reason for doing so was to greet them affectionately, and to comfort them in their extremity.

At this she was immediately seized by the soldiers, and brought before the Proconsul, who at once had her maltreated as though he had lost his reason; for he did not have her tortured with every kind of dreadful torment on her sides only, as was generally the custom, but he also had her breasts torn open to the very bones, and then cut off. All this she suffered steadfastly and with a happy face; but when, because of the intensity of the pain, she could scarcely draw her breath any longer, so that it seemed she would soon cease to live, the Proconsul had her thrown into the sea; and so this faithful heroine of Jesus Christ was numbered among her slain fellow brothers and sisters. See A. Mell., 1st book, folio 124, columns 2, 3, from Euseb., book 8. Also, J. Gys. on the name Theodosia. [n267-2]