(CIRC. A.D. 579.)
[Roman Martyrology. Authority:--The Dialogues of S. Gregory the Great,
lib. iii.]
The Lombards in their ravages of the North of Italy put to death forty
husbandmen, who refused to eat meats they had offered to their idols,
and about four hundred who refused to pay reverence to the head of a
goat, which they regarded with a peculiar veneration.