Irene and her Two Sisters, Burned Alive for the Testimony of Jesus Christ, in the Year 309

In the records written, through the clerk of the criminal court, by the Proconsul Dulcetius, concerning some pious martyrs, there is pronounced at the close a certain sentence of death upon three sisters, who steadfastly continued in the truth of Christ. The last part of the aforementioned records contains the following words about this: "And when he (Dulcetius) had demanded paper, he wrote this sentence of death: 'Whereas Irene would not obey the decree of the Emperors, and sacrifice to the gods, and still remains a Christian, I therefore command that she be burned alive, as her two sisters were.'"

When the criminal judge had pronounced this sentence on Irene, the soldiers took her and brought her to an elevated place where her sisters had died. When they had built a great fire of wood, they made her climb on it; and there, after singing sweet psalms and hymns of praise to the honor of God, she was consumed by the flames. A. Mell., folio 130 and 131, column 1, ex Act. Tier. Proconsular. apud Metaph. Also, Acta cognitionis novissime diei. [n276-1]