[2]The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints under December 19, SS.
Meuris and Thea, two holy women at Gaza in Palestine, when the persecution raged in that city under the successors of Dioclesian, bore up bravely against all the cruelty of men, and malice of the devil, and triumphed over both to the last moment.
Meuris died under the hands of the persecutors: but Thea languished some time after she had passed through a dreadful variety of exquisite torments, as we learn from the author of the life of Saint Porphyrius, of Gaza, written about the close of the fourth century.
[3] Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea, records how in Gaza at this time a virgin named Valentina and her sister were tortured and then bound together and burned to death.
[5] He goes on, Valesius gives this note:– "This virgin's name is wanting here, but we will supply this defect from the Grecian Menology; where this passage occurs at the 15th of July, On the same day the holy Martyrs Valentina and Thea, which were Egyptians, being brought to the city Dio Caesarea, before Firmillianus the judge, made confessions of Christ's name, who is our God ; after which, their left feet being burnt and their right eyes pulled out, they were killed with a sword and their bodies burnt.