Coloman is a saint of the Catholic Church. He was an Irish pilgrim en route to the Holy Land and was mistaken for a spy because of his strange appearance, examinated, tortured, and hanged at Stockerau, near Vienna, Austria, on 17 July 1012. The leafless tree was green again and pointed to the fact that he was wearing a martyr of Christ. The Margrave Heinrich left Coloman body on October 13, 1014 buried in Melk. The image "Die Folterung" (The torture) is made by Adi Holzer in the year 1986. It is a part of the "Koloman Zyklus" from the year 1986.