Baring-Gould’s sources: Hrabanus, Usuardtis, Ado, Notker, and Modern Roman Martyrology. Authority: — The Acts of S. Laurence, (Aug. ioth.)] The emperor Decius having made himself master of several provinces of Persia, persecuted the Christians therein. Of the numbers were Olympias and Maximus, nobles of Corduena, who were brought before the emperor and cudgelled. The emperor, desirous of obtaining their wealth, asked them where it was. “ Here,” answered the martyrs, " these limbs are our treasures. Take them, break, spoil, hack, or bum them, that we may inherit eternal riches in recompence from the Lord.” After having exposed them to various torments, without being able to shake their constancy, he sent them to his officer, Vitellius Anisius, to be despatched. They were beaten on the head with crow-bars, and so gained their crown. The relics of these saints are said to be preserved in the church of S. Malo, in Brittany, and also at Lifcge. In Art they are represented with crow-bars.