The Statues Christian F Section. Saint Fabian

Florian was a tradition dating from the 8th Century after the official head of the Roman governor of the province Ufernoricum, Aquilinus. After his retirement - perhaps it was because Christ had become Florian - he lived in Aelium Cetium - today's St. P�lten. In the Christian persecution under Emperor Diocletian came after governor Aquilinus Lauriacum - Lorch today - to the Christians auszuforschen. 40 Christian were taken and locked up after many tortures. Florian hurried after Lauriacum to them to help his former superiors. But Aquilinus had also arrested him because he refused to reject Christianity. He was beaten with clubs, his shoulder blades with a sharpened iron broken, he was finally sentenced to death with a stone around his neck from a bridge into the river Enns fallen. The 40 professors have died in prison.

Tradition says that at first nobody was prepared for the executions to take place Florian. Finally, a soldier pushed him with a millstone around the neck to the water, the drowning man when he wanted to look, he went blind - in the tradition of the 5th Century blind but not the executioner, but Florian. Florian was then resurfaced, the corpse of the waves on a rock thrown by an eagle and was guarded to protect it from desecration by the heathen to preserve. The following night, therefore, appeared Florian Valeria, a devout woman, with a request for him to burial, which they in their estate promptly did. The oxen, which carried the corpse, were completely exhausted before the thirst, which miraculously created a source - which is still flowing "Florian wells.