Saint Barbara—the person, not the church where my dad works—is the kind of saint who is called a virgin martyr. The virgin martyrs were girls who were supposed to get married but didn’t want to get married. Now, these days, if you don’t want to get married you just do your thing, no big deal. But when the Romans were still in charge, refusing to get married was reason enough for someone to feed you to the lions or chop you up with a sword or something else awful. A surprising number of girls chose option B. It kind of makes you wonder about how bad Roman boys were, to be honest. Anyway, there
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