The life of St Lupus, Slave of St Demetrius
He also went about destroying pagan idols, which drew persecution down on him, though he was preserved unharmed through it all.
In time Lupus gave himself up to the authorities rather than continue in hiding, and the emperor Maximian Galerius ordered him put to death. Tradition holds that though he had not yet been baptized, being a Christian only in his heart, rain fell unexpectedly from a clear sky just before his execution, and this the Church remembers as the baptism God granted him in place of the one he had been denied. He was beheaded by the sword, not long after his master's own martyrdom, and is remembered together with him at Thessalonica.
