St. Gundenes

At Carthage, St. Gundenes, virgin. By order of the proconsul Rufinus, she was four different times stretched on the rack for the faith of Christ, horribly lacerated with iron hooks, confined for a long time in a filthy dungeon, and finally put to the sword. At Dorostorum, in Mysia, in the time of Julian the Apostate and the governor Capitolinus, St. JEmilian, martyr, who was cast into a furnace, and thus received the palm of martyrdom.