06 — The Martyrdom

The most carefully hedged section of the collection. The tradition that Laura was put to death in 864 by being cast into a vat of molten lead is reported strictly as what the (late) sources attest — never asserted as established fact (METHODOLOGY §3.5) — and is followed by a sober accounting of what can and cannot be affirmed.

File	Description
the-tradition-of-the-martyrdom.md	The tradition of death by molten lead or boiling pitch — the scourging, the cauldron, the three hours of psalmody, the beheading — pinned to its late and partly spurious sources
what-is-attested.md	The source-critical accounting: the cult and convent anchored, the passion and date late; and what the Church venerates in glorifying such a martyr

See Also

• 04 — The Sources and Attestation — the source inventory behind these judgments
• 05 — Arrest and Trial — the charge and trial tradition
• 08 — Veneration — the cult, relics, and feast
• Master README — the collection overview