ABSTRACT
Eventually the strain proved too great for Flora to bear and she ran away from home. Her brother sought her return, and denounced her to the authorities. Flora was imprisoned but offered the chance of release if she would return to the faith of her father, but she denounced Islam before the judge, in the company of Maria, the child of a christian father and a muslim mother who followed her brother to voluntary martyrdom." Mixed marriages do not provide the motives of all the christians who courted death in the next six years . They came from monasteries and from the laity. Many were Cordobans, but the movement swept up christians from outside the capital - and, in the case of George, from the monastery of Mar Sabas nearJerusalem - in a wave of self-immolation. Eulogius himself met the same fate and his death in March 857 may have brought the movement to an end.
