Baring-Gould’s sources: By the Greeks on this day. Also the Modern Roman Martyrology. Authority The Greek Acts, written however long afterwards, perhaps from the pro-consular records.] S. Aquilina was a girl of twelve at Biblis in Palestine, and was a Christian. In the persecution of Diocletian she was brought before the judge Volusian, who ordered bodkins to be heated red-hot and thrust into her ears. VOL. vl 12 The agony was so intense that she fainted, and was cast out of the court as dead, but as she was found to be still moving on the following morning, Volusian bade the executioner strike off her head. Her prayer, as the bodkins were being heated, is said to have been: “Thou Lord Jesus Christ who hast nourished me from my childhood, who hast illumined my most secret thoughts with the bright beams of Thy justice, who hast made me strong with Thy ready and strong assistance, that I might fight against the enemy and the adversary, Satan, who givest to all Thy faithful the true and highest wisdom; finish the course of my contest, and preserve unextinguished the lamp of my virginity, that I with the five wise virgins may be meet to enter into the marriage chamber, and there praise Thee who hast heard all my petitions ! 99