 Escaping to Etruria, Rufina and Secunda were captured and brought before a prefect, who tortured and then beheaded them.Their bodies were buried on the Via Aurelia and the church of Sante Rufina e Secunda was built in their honor in Rome.In the notes attached to the publication of Pope Paul VI's 1969 revision of the General Roman Calendar, it is stated that of these two saints, whose feast was inserted into the Roman Calendar in the 12th century on the occasion of the transfer of their relics to the Lateran Basilica, nothing is really known except their names and the fact that they were buried at the ninth milestone of the Via Cornelia.