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Her father ordered a bath to be built for her so that she would not have to use public baths. While the plan for the bath initially provided for two windows, Barbara installed another one to honor the Holy Trinity by confessing the word to her father.

Then her father, seeing this change, became enraged and ordered her to be handed over to the Roman Prefect during the persecution of the Christians.

Admiring her beauty, the Perfect initially tried to persuade her, but seeing that she was adamant, he subjected her to martyrdom, mainly to save her from the wrath of her father who wanted to kill her.

Eventually, the Prefect ordered her beheaded, and set the sentence to be executed by her own father, which was also his wish.

According to her biographer Symeon, her own father beheaded her, but at the moment when his crime was over, he fell dead struck by lightning during a divine trial.