Baring-Gould’s sources: Spanish Martyrologies. The Acts are purely apocryphal. They were written to order for Canon Arnold of Monte-rotundo, about A.D. 1200, not in Spain, but in Italy, and are adapted from the Acts of the “Quatuor Coronati."] The following story is devoid of foundation in truth. It is said that there lived at L/Apurda, near Gerona, a man named Eter, who had two sons, Lirus and Sirus. At the same time another man at Cursa had two daughters, Floris and Gelida. Lirus married Floris, and by her had two sons, Germanus and Paulinus. Sirus married Gelida, and became the father of two sons, Justus and Sicius. Floris became a Christian, and died shortly after having given birth to her youngest son. The father, unable to rear the children himself, entrusted them to the care of his sister-in-law, Gelida. One night Floris appeared to Gelida, surrounded by light, and unspeakably beautiful. “ Wouldst thou be as I am ?” asked the apparition. “ How can I," answered Gelida, “ I was born with a dusky complexion.” “Go, my sister,” said Floris, “to a holy man, Stephen, who lives not far 0$ and he will teach thee things that thou must know.” Then she faded into darkness. This vision led to the conversion of Gelida and her husband, and afterwards to that of Lirus and a second wife he had married, named Florentina. The four foster-brothers were baptized and apprenticed to a stone-cutter and sculptor. All wen i on well, till the governor of Spain, named Dacian, sent one Rufinus to Gerona, who having ordered an idol of the sculptors, had them imprisoned when he heard that they refused to make it The four young men were half-starved in prison, and beaten with leaded whips, and then were decapitated.