Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and most ancient Latin Martyrologies. The Acts are late and undeserving of trust.] JHESE Saints were Persians, who, coming to Rome during the persecution of Decius, were cruelly tormented and put to deat$. Their bodies were placed in the house of a subdeacon, Quirinus. In the reign of Constantine the Great their relics were removed to the cemetery of Pontianus, called also Ad Ursum Pileatum, probably from the sign of some tavern near it. It was situated near the Tiber, on the road to Porto. The marble sarcophagus in which the bodies of these saints were laid in the reign of Constantine exists. Christ with cruciform nimbus is represented on it in the clouds placing garlands on the heads of Abdon and Sennen, who wear fur tunics and cloaks, with fur hoods drawn over their heads. Behind S. Abdon is a figure of S. Miles; behind S. Sennen one of S. Vincent in priestly vestment. Their relics are now in the church of S. Mark at Rome, but others at Florence and elsewhere. ss. MAXIMA, DONATILLA AND SECUNDA, VV., [Carthaginian Kalendar, in which, however, Secunda is called Septima, probably correctly. Martyrology of Jerome, the " Martyrologium parvum,” Notker, Usuardus, Ado, &c. Authority The Acts in the Martyrology of Ado. This version has undergone some slight alterations, 1 but in the main facts they are to be quite relied upon.] In the neighbourhood of Tuburbo, in Northern Africa, two virgin sisters, Maxima and Donatilla, were arrested as Christians and brought into the city, to be examined by the governor Anulinus. The rough and brutal soldiers drove them along the road with insult. As they were leaving their house, a young girl of twelve, named Secunda, or Septima, looked out of an upper window, and seeing the two noble maidens being carried off to trial, she called to them to suffer her to join them, then ran down stairs, and gave herself up to the soldiers to be taken with them to judgment and death.