Eulalia was a rebellious teen
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The earliest surviving French hagiography, handwritten in Old French in the year 880, is the story of Eulalia. In her young life, she had “a beautiful body [and] a soul more beautiful still,” but death came early when she refused to deny God — not for gold, silver, nor jewels, not even when she was personally ordered by the pagan emperor Maximian.
First, they tried to set her in a fire. But she wouldn’t burn because she was blameless. Maximian ordered her decapitation, and “the girl did not oppose that idea.” After her head was cut off, a dove flew out of her neck and up to heaven.
It’s not in the original French, but there’s a version of this story where Eulalia is stripped naked — then covered, respectfully, by God in a shroud of snow. John William Waterhouse, in an 1885 painting on display at Tate Britain, appears to have fixated on the before, rather than the after.