The tale of steadfast conduct and faith was embroidered in later retellings and figured in the Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine and was included among the persecution of Christians detailed in John Foxe's 1583 Actes and Monuments, an early Protestant stand-by [REF].
Accounts of the moral inculcated by the exemplum of the Theban Legion resonate with the immediate culture of each teller.