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, 2» 1 filled with fear, they threw it into the river.