A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Apollonia
APOLLONIA, a Martyr in the Year 248.
A Persecution was raised against the Christians in Alexandria, during which Apollonia, then very aged, was arrested. She refused to renounce her faith, and they prepared to throw her into a large fire, when, asking to be released, as if the sight of the punishment had changed her purpose, she no sooner found herself at liberty, than she threw herself into the flames!
Milner's Christian Church.