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This mother, who saw them tortured and burned one by one, because of religion did not change her attitude.
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She watched the flesh of her children being consumed by fire, their toes and fingers scattered on the ground, and the flesh of the head to the chin exposed like masks.
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O mother, tried now by more bitter pains than even the birth pangs you suffered for them!
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O woman, who alone gave birth to such complete devotion!
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When the firstborn breathed his last, it did not turn you aside, nor when the second in torments looked at you piteously nor when the third expired;
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