St. Dorothea to her persecutor/executioner: “The example that I will give will be to teach every one not to fear man, but God. For all the torments you can inflict on me are temporal, and will soon be over, but those which God inflicts in hell are eternal, and without end.” (Quoted by Fr. Pedro de Ribadeneyra, “Lives of the Early Martyrs”, and English translations of his “Flores Sanctorum” pub. 1855.)