Closing their ears like cruel and barbarous people they continued to shoot arrows . The holy martyr fell to his knees and offered Jesus his soul. his body pierced and surrounded by so many arrows that the soldiers who brought his body to the fortress said that they were more than five hundred.The barbarous people cut off his head and hands and went to celebrate in the mountains but the earth quaked mightily and the head of the saint began crying copiously and sobbed so much that filled with fear they they threw it into the river