Book Title: Historia delle sante vergini Romane con varie annotationi e con alcune vite brevi de' santi parenti loro : e de' gloriosi martiri papia e mauro soldati Romani opera / de Antonio Gallonio Romano, prete della Congregatione dell' Oratorio

Author: Gallonio, Antonio, d. 1605

Image Title: Martyrdom of Saint Emerentia

Description: To the left, Saint Emerentia is martyred by stoning after being caught praying at the grave of Saint Agnes. To the right is Saint Agnes, holding her attribute, a lamb. Agnes was the friend and foster-sister of Emerentia, and was martyred for refusing a marriage to the son of the Roman Prefect Sempronius.

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