5. When he had been rendered completely helpless, the king gave orders for him to be brought, still breathing, to the fire and fried alive in a pan. As the smoke from the pan drifted about, his mother and the rest encouraged one another to die nobly, with such words as these,





“O mais belo Credo é o que se pronuncia no escuro, no sacrifício, com esforço”. São Padre Pio de Pietrelcina