Encratis
Martyrological notice
There also, of St. Encratis, virgin and martyr, who after her body all torn, her breast cut off, and her liver plucked out, yet remaining alive, was shut up in -prison until her wounded body putrefied.
The lives of the Fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints · 2 · AND ST. ENCRATIS, OR ENGRATIA, V. M.
AND ST. ENCRATIS, OR ENGRATIA, V. M.
Prow Prudentius de Coi hymn. 4. See Vasams Belga in Chron. Hisp. Breviarium Eborense a Resendto
recugnitum, an. 1569
A. D. 304.
St. Optatus, and seventeen other holy men,f received the crown of mar- tyrdom on the same day, at Saragossa, under the cruel governor Dacian, in
* Near th's oratory stood the ancient monastery of Scicy, which Richard I., duke of Normandy, united to that of St. Michael on Mount Tumba, which he founded in «J6G, upon the spot where before stood a col- legiate church of canons, built in 709. by St. Aubert, bishop of Avranches. It is called St. Michael s on the Tomb, or at the Tombs, because two mountains are called Tombs. Irom their resemblance to the nsmj or covering of graves. On one of these, three hundred feet high, which the tide makes an island a; high water, stands this famous monastery, enriched with many precious relics, and resorted to by a great Dum- ber of pilgrims. See a curious description of this place in Dom. Beaunier's Recueil general des Evcches, Abbayes, &c, p. 725. t. 2. „ .,„ „ u n . i.,
t Their names, according t> Prudentius. are : Optatus, Lupercus, Martial, Successns Urban. UulntiMan Juiius, Piiblius, Fronto, Felix, Cecilianus, Evotius, Primitivus, Apodemus, and four others of the nam* Baturninui.
Martyrologium Romanum · Latin witness
Item Caesaraugustae sanctae Encratidis, Virginis et Martyris, quae, laniato corpore, mamilla abscissa et jecore avulso, adhuc superstes in carcere inclusa et retenta est, donec ulceratum ipsius corpus putresceret.