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Chrysánthus et Daría
cónjuges, nóbili génere nati, fide étiam clarióres, quam Daría, maríti ópera, cum baptísmo suscéperat ; Romæ innumerábilem hóminum multitúdinem,
hæc mulíerum, ille virórum, ad Christum convertérunt. Quare
Celerínus præféctus comprehénsos trádidit Cláudio tribúno, qui jussit a
milítibus Chrysánthum vinctum cruciátibus torquéri ; sed víncula ómnia
resolúta sunt, mox cómpedes, in quos conjéctus fúerat, confrácti.
Deínde, bovis cório inclúsum, in ardentíssimo sole constítuunt. Tum,
pédibus ac mánibus caténa constríctis, in obscúrum cárcerem detrúdunt ;
ubi, solútis caténis, claríssima lux locum illustrávit. Daría veri
in lupánar compúlsa, leónis tutéla, dum in oratióne defíxa est, a
contumélia divínitus defénsa est. Dénique in arenáriam, quæ est via
Salária, utérque ductus, effóssa terra, lapídibus óbruti, parem martyrii
corónam adépti sunt. |
Chrysanthus and Daria were an husband and wife, of
noble birth, but glorious rather for their faith, which the wife learnt
from the husband. They brought to Christ a great number of persons
at Rome, she women, and he men. Therefore the Prefect Celerinus
caused them to be taken, and gave them over to Claudius the Tribune, who
bade Chrysanthus to be tormented by the soldiers, all bound as he was, but
all his bonds brake, and so likewise the shackles wherein his feet were
afterwards fastened. Then was Chrysanthus sewn up in an ox hide and
set in the full heat of the sun, and thereafter chained hand and foot and
cast into a dark prison, but the chains dropped off from him, and the
place was filled with light. Meanwhile Daria was haled to a brothel,
but God kept her from insult, a lion guarding her, and herself always rapt
in prayer. Lastly they were both of them led to a sand pit upon the
Salarian Way, where they were thrown alive into an hole, and buried in
stones, and so were not divided in winning the victory of Martyrdom. |
