2 Maccabees 15:34-36

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁴ Then all blessed the Lord of heaven, saying: Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.

³⁵ And he hung up Nicanor's head in the top of the castle, that it might be an evident and manifest sign of the help of God.

³⁶ And they all ordained by a common decree, by no means to let this day pass without solemnity: