De sancto Fusciano martire
The Martyrdom of Fuscianus and Victoricus
Fuscianus and Victoricus steadfastly refuse to abandon their faith, enduring brutal torture and death at the hands of the tyrant Rictionarius.
Rictionarius, sitting in the seat of pestilence after the death he had caused and the martyr's crown won by blessed Quintinus, spoke to the holy servants of God, Fuscianus and Victoricus, who were burning with brotherly love and grounded in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, demanding that they turn away from the Lord Christ and offer sacrifice to his idols and gods. When they utterly loathed and rejected this, and finally invited him without delay to inflict whatever tortures he wished, that tyrant ordered iron stakes to be driven into their nostrils and ears, and their heads to be pierced with red-hot nails, and their eyes to be gouged from their sockets; he then took up spears in his own hands, directed them to pierce the bodies of the saints, and ordered their heads to be struck off while they were still twitching, and, polished by his desired victory, he returned, smiling placidly as if from some triumph, only to be struck down immediately by divine vengeance and filled with agony in his bowels.
Divine Judgment and Miraculous Witness
The persecutor suffers immediate divine retribution while the saints perform a miraculous sign after their death.
He began to cry out through the whole city, 'Alas, alas, woe is me! What am I to do, or what is left for a wretch like me, who is being tortured by such an intolerable and dire punishment for the sake of God's saints, Fuscianus and Victoricus?' On the day they were beheaded, a great light appeared over their bodies. Even with their heads severed, they stood up on their feet and, taking their own heads with their souls, they returned with a firm and steady gait to the lodging of blessed Gentianus, from which they had been led out, so that they might sleep together in the Lord with him.
Read the original Latin
Rictionarius in cathedra pestilentiae residens post mortem datam per eum et adeptam coronam martirii a beato Quintino, sanctus Dei Fuscianus cum bento Viclórico fraterna caritate succensi et in fide domini nostri Jesu Christi fundati, praesens tyrannus allocutus est, ut a domino Christo recedentes ydolis et Diis suis sacrificarent. Qaod cum illi penitus aboiminantes respuerent eumque tandem ad inferenda supplicia, qualia vellet, absque mora invitarent, tyrannus ille sudes ferreas in nares eorum et aures cudendo jussit immitti et clavis candentibus eorum capita transfigi, oculos quoque eorum a foraminibus suis pelli, isque manus Jato crispans hastilia ferro ad sanctorum corpora transforanda ea direxit risque adhuc palpitantibus capita ampulari praecepit optatoque politus solito laetior et quasi de quadam placide ridens victoria celeriter ambiens regressus est moxque ultione divina percussus intestinonun dolore repletus. est et per totam civitatem clamare coepit ac dicere: heu, heu, hen, quid agam ant quid mihi misero denique restat, qui propler Dei sanctos Fuscianum el Victoricum, dira in tali supplicio intolerabili crucior poena? Eaque die, qua decollati sunt, ingens fulgor super eorum corpora apparuit, exstincta quoque cum jacerent truncata capitibus, ipsi super pedes erecti sunt et animabus recipientes propria capita firmo rectoque gradu ad hospitium beati Gentiani, de quo educti fuerant, redierunt, ut cum eodem in domino simul dormirent,
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