Dorothea a Virgin and martyr, suffered during the persecution at Caesarea in Cappadocia.
It is written that Dorothea's parents were martyred before her by a Roman governor, he called her to an audience and demanded that she take a husband.
When she refused, he had her put upon the rack and given a choice of a husband, if she would sacrifice to the gods, or death, if she refused.
She claimed that she had a husband in Jesus Christ, he put her in a cell with two women who had abandoned Christianity, hoping that they would convince her, but, instead, she brought them back to religious faith.
When she was again put on the rack, she smiled and said that she was truly blessed in Jesus. She was sentenced to death, after further tribulation.
Her martyrdom occurred in February, and as she was being led to her beheading, a pagan lawyer mocked her, asking her to send him apples or roses from her husband Christ’s garden.
Upon her binding for decapitation, Dorothea saw a young girl with a basket of roses and apples and asked her to take them to pagan lawyer as a gift.
The child was an angel, and when pagan lawyer saw her bringing him roses and apples after Dorothea's martyrdom, he converted to Christianity and was later martyred himself.
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