- have
developed as a way of
discouraging such acts of
furta sacra. A
cephalophoric legend of
Nicasius of
Rheims tells that at the
moment of his execution...
-
Valerie of Limoges,
according to legend, an ****ociate of St Martial, a
cephalophoric martyr and an
important subject of
Limoges porcelain.
Valeria of Milan...
-
Valerie of Limoges,
according to legend, an ****ociate of
Saint Martial, a
cephalophoric martyr Valeria of Milan,
often known as St Valerie,
venerated in Thibodaux...
- execution,
picking up her head like
Saint Denis in Paris, and
other cephalophoric martyrs and
walking with it in her hands, to the door of a
local convent...
-
other hagiographies and
incorporating common tropes (fighting a dragon,
cephalophoric elements, etc.), as well as
elements from the
lives of
other saints...
