death_date death_place birth_place attributes feast_day venerated_in patronage birth_date titles article_title name
304 córdoba , spain córdoba , spain with roses saint victoria , his sister , crowned with 17 november roman catholic church , orthodox catholic church córdoba , spain 3rd century martyr acisclus
 saint acisclus
acisclus

after they were arrested , acisclus and victoria were tortured .
according to tradition , victoria was killed by arrows and acisclus was beheaded .
one 10th century `` passio '' relates that the roman prefect of córdoba , dion , an `` iniquitous persecutor of christians , '' had acisclus and victoria cast into a fiery furnace .
however , when he heard acisclus and victoria sing songs of joy from within the furnace , dion had them bound to stones and cast into the guadalquivir .
they were soon floating unharmed on the river 's surface .
he then suspended them over a fire .
the fire , however , raged out of control and killed hundreds of pagans .
the two saints then submitted to martyrdom , having proved their point and demonstrated their faith .
-lsb- http://libro.uca.edu/martyrs/cm6.htm] their home was turned into a church .
during the ninth century , some of the martyrs of córdoba were associated with this church , including perfectus , a priest there .
