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There are two extant versions of Eusebius" Martyrs of Palestine and in both the shorter and the longer versions the story of Theodosia is recounted, though with variations. Foreign five years, the governor Urban had sought to enforce the orders of the Emperors that all should perform sacrifices to the Roman gods,upon pain of death. From Tyre,Lebanon, the seventeen year old Theodosia had made her way to Caesarea in Palestine.
She congratulated them and asked to be remembered in their prayers.
Seized by the guards and brought before the governor, he ordered her to sacrifice to the gods, and when she would not, he had her tortured with "cruel combs" on her side and breasts and "she was torn on the ribs until her bowels were seen". for I rejoice greatly in having been deemed worthy to be admitted to the participation of the sufferings of God"s martyrs: for indeed, for this very cause, I stood up and spake with them, in order that by some means or other they might make me a sharer in their sufferings." Whereupon she was thrown into the sea. lieutenant was the teaching of the church that martyrs would go immediately to heaven, be rewarded with a martyr"s crown, and sit by the throne of God, unlike others who would have to wait for the Day of Judgement.
Urban had them imprisoned and then decapitated.