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Maximian he was struck by her beauty and endeavoured by every means to shake her constancy. However, she remained firm against all attacks and the prefect caused her to be slain with the sword.
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Vitalian was a rich nobleman and prefect of Padua. Her parents were reportedly converted to Christianity by the preaching of
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Justina being a young woman in 304 AD could not have known Prosdocimus as he died in approximately 100 AD.
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in 1810. In 1919 it was reopened. The tombs of several saints are housed in the interior, including those of
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