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Some of the guards said that when she also was about to be seized and put to death she threw herself into the flames so that no one might touch her body.
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O mother, who with your seven sons nullified the violence of the tyrant, frustrated his evil designs, and showed the courage of your faith!
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Nobly set like a roof on the pillars of your sons, you held firm and unswerving against the earthquake of the tortures.
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Take courage, therefore, O holy-minded mother, maintaining firm an enduring hope in God.
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The moon in heaven, with the stars, does not stand so august as you, who, after lighting the way of your star-like seven sons to piety, stand in honor before God and are firmly set in heaven with them.
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For your children were true descendants of father Abraham.
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If it were possible for us to paint the history of your piety as an artist might, would not those who first beheld it have shuddered as they saw the mother of the seven children enduring their varied tortures to death for the sake of religion?
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Indeed it would be proper to inscribe upon their tomb these words as a reminder to the people of our nation:
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"Here lie buried an aged priest and an aged woman and seven sons, because of the violence of the tyrant who wished to destroy the way of life of the Hebrews.
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They vindicated their nation, looking to God and enduring torture even to death."