Which saints suffered the most gruesome deaths?

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sometimes I wonder if the stories told about martyrs and certain saints are not fables
 
Look up “Cephalophore” on Wikipedia.

There are lots of legends of decapitated saints who carried their own heads.

BTW the Church does not require we believe these legends.
 
AngelusDomini said:
St Sebastian survived the arrows and was nursed back to health. He was later clubbed to death after confronting the emperor
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Thank you! My whole knowledge of him comes from the art, so I wouldn’t have ever known. At least his death was still horrible so he fits on the list? (Seems like a weird thing to say.)
 
I’ve been thinking about this all day and just can’t believe such a phenomenon exists. The body would be spewing blood, muscles would freeze and the brain is dead in seconds without perfusion.
 
And back to my previous statement that these legends are not an article of faith.
 
5 Heroic and Gruesome Deaths of Religious Saints
  • St. Denis of Paris (Beheaded) A statue of the walking headless Denis, in the crypt of the Roman Catholic Basilica of Denis in Paris. …
  • St. Cassian (Hacked to Death by Children) …
  • St. Lucy (Eyes Gouged Out) …
  • St. Mercurius (Tortured with Sharp Nails and Burned before Being Beheaded) …
  • St. Antipas (Baked in a Bronze Bull)
 
MountCarmel said:
As for ‘gruesome deaths’, there are many - having done in depth research into my own family tree, that includes saints as well as sociopaths and psychopaths, I can assure you that there are many 'imaginative and creative ways of inflicting, maximising and stringing out pain in fellow man/woman. Some have suffered crucifixion, one or two, hanging, drawing and quartering, a couple burned at the stake; one unfortunate historic great-grandmother was flung into a dungeon, given no food and only minimal water [to string things out], she was reduced to gnawing at her bedding before she finally starved to death.
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This all happened among your own ancestors?
 
Many of the English and Welsh martyrs were hung , drawn and quartered , e.g. St. Thomas Garnet, SJ,

They were fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where they were then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).
 
Supposedly, yes, according to historic records. {I have what professional genealogists call a ‘gateway surname’ - it seems they ain’t kidding! Leaned so much about history and human nature, good and very bad.
 
i wouldn’t have wanted to go through what st joan d’arc went through
 
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