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feet with nails. They tried to fry her to death in an enormous pan, but a moment after she was tossed naked onto the pan, the fire under the pan exploded, burning several onlookers. After these miracles, Hermione pretended to want to sacrifice to idols and was taken to a pagan temple. Khoury reported that she prayed and "caused the jeweled idols in
Hadrian’s pagan temple to go crashing down into ruins," so he had her beheaded. Before she died, her two executioners, named Theotimus and Theodulos, were briefly paralysed. They knelt at her feet and were converted to Christianity "on the spot." She healed them and promised that they would go to heaven, and they died soon afterwards. According to Khoury, Hermione "owns a special place among the
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before entering and was unharmed. The fire was extinguished after she entered the cauldron and she "seemed to be standing in dew." Hadrian touched the cauldron himself, but his nails fell off and he was badly burned, so he ordered his troops to "torture her without mercy;" they beat her and cut her
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Hermione to renounce Christ, by having her scourged and her feet pierced with wire but "she endured these trials without complaint." Hadrian also ordered that Hermione be thrown into a cauldron full of burning tar; she made the
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upon the throne of judgment." Trajan freed her when he saw that she would not recant her faith and that she bore the torture with "patience and courage," and after she prophesied that he would defeat the
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