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That's "The Martyrdom of Saint Vitus." If it makes you feel better, he survives this as well as many other tortures. His associates, the two mourners, are Modestus and Crecentia.
So their thoughts and prayers worked?
Survived being put in a furnace 🤔
Also boiled in oil and fed to lions before finally dying only after escaping the Romans.
So a dude got maimed horribly by dark-ages torturers and survived long enough for witnesses to go "Holy shit, he's still alive??" and then stories spread about it.
I hate it here.
Oh, my first thought was cremation. Makes more sense, as the guy doesn't look very dead.