4 Maccabees 15:13

¹¹And yet, though there were so many circumstances connected with love of children to draw on a mother to sympathy, in the case of none of them were the various tortures able to pervert her principle.

¹²But she inclined each one separately and all together to death for religion.

— 4 Maccabees 15:13 —

¹⁴At the racking and roasting of each one of them, the observant mother was prevented by religion from changing.

¹⁵She beheld her children’s flesh dissolving around the fire; and their extremities quivering on the ground, and the flesh of their heads dropped forward down to their beards, like masks.