"The Second Nun's Tale" is a story in The Cantebury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer told by a pious monk about Saint Cecilia who was martyred. Cecelia requires her husband, Valerian, to convert to Christianity so she can remain pure. Valerian does so and when the Roman prefect, Almachius, discovers this, he orders him to worship the Roman god Jupiter. Valerian refuses and is executed. Cecilia is sentenced to being boiled alive but miraculously survives, surviving a beheading as well and continuing to preach Christianity.
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