The sisters gave the judge the following testimony:

O judge! How is it that you command us to turn away from true godliness, since God has made it known to us that no one is richer or a better bridegroom than Jesus Christ, our Savior? No way of life is more blessed than the Christian faith by which we live and by which mere men have conquered kingdoms. To dwell with Him and to live in Him is our only true provision, but to depart from Him is eternal damnation. We will never be seperated from communion with Him as long as we live in this life; for having given and entrusted our youth into His keeping, we hope to eventually become his bride.
The transient riches of this world, which you have offered us, have no appeal; we count them as manure and loss that we might gain Christ, because we know that everything under the sun except Jesus and true faith in Him is emptiness.
Nor are we moved by your threats of punishment, for such things are even more temporary. As for death, the thing you have presented to us as the final terror is a thing not to be feared but desired, because we know that through it we go without delay to heaven, and to Christ our Bridegroom, and there to be embraced by Him and forevermore inseparable from Him through His love.

They were executed by the sword shortly after that..

Now what say you??


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