All the details of her life are the conventional ones associated with female martyrs of the early 4th century.

In the Christian imagination, the blood-death-flower pattern is often transferred from the young men of Classical myth-primarily Adonis and Attis-to female virgin martyrs.

The documentary featured dramatic re-enactments, some of which, like the attractive female martyr forced into a sizzling-hot iron chair, would have done Mel Gibson proud.

The female martyrs, sometimes known as the holy virgins, are gathered by an abundant meadow, a symbol of fertility.

She died there and thus became the first female martyr of Karbala.

Arlen Siu, a Chinese Nicaraguan who became one of the first female martyrs of the Sandinista revolution.

The personal account of a female martyr is also rare, as the stories of other female martyrs were recorded collectively.

It should still be acknowledged that the style could have been crafted to give the impression of a female martyr's diary.

On the south wall of the west aisle, in a series of standing figuers, five female martyrs are depicted, and on the west wall four holy warriors.

Wendelmoet Claesdochter, first female martyr during the reformation.