The Palazzo Bellomo Altarpiece of St. Barbara: Detail – Barbara Escapes to the Hills, but Her Father Finds Her

16th century
Oil on panel
Palazzo Bellomo, Syracuse, Sicily

The Italian inscription says, "As the father pursued she fled to the hills." Guided by some shepherds, Barbara's father Dioscorus finds her in the hills and drags her by her hair back to the city. Here is the corresponding passage from Caxton:

Then he being replenished with furor, incontinent [at once] drew his sword to have slain her, but the holy virgin made her prayer and then marvellously she was taken in a stone and borne into a mountain on which two shepherds kept their sheep, the which saw her fly. And then her father, which pursued after her, went unto the shepherds and demanded after her. And that one, which would have preserved her, said that he had not seen her, but that other, which was an evil man, showed and pointed her with his finger, whom the holy St. Barbara cursed, and anon his sheep became locusts, and he consumed into a stone.

And then her father took her by the hair and drew her down from the mountain and shut her fast in prison, and made her to be kept there by his servants unto the time that he had sent to the judge for to deliver her to the torments.
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