Two years after the martyrdom of St. Milles, Daniel, a priest, and a
virgin consecrated to God, named Verda, which in Chaldaic signifies a
rose, were apprehended in the province of the Razicheans, in Persia, by
an order of the governor, and put to all manner of torments for three
months, almost without intermission. Among other tortures, their feet
being bored through, were put into frozen water for five days together.
The governor, seeing it impossible to overcome their constancy,
condemned them to lose their heads. They were crowned on the 25th of the
moon of February, which was that year the 21st of that month, in the
year of Christ 344, and of king Sapor II., the thirty-fifth. Their names
were not known either to the Greek or Latin martyrologists: and their
illustrious triumph is recorded in few words by St. Maruthas: but was
most glorious in the sight of heaven.