By these words the mother of the seven encouraged and persuaded each of her sons to die rather than violate God’s commandment.

The moon in heaven with the stars is not so majestic as you, who, after lighting the way of your star-like seven sons to piety, stand in honor before God and are firmly set in heaven with them.

But the sons of Abraham with their victorious mother are gathered together into the chorus of the fathers and have received pure and immortal souls from God,