2 Maccabees 7:41

Verse 41. Consumed. Greek “died” ( Bible.) of joy: (Sixth. Bib. v. Victoria) she place herself amid the dead bodies, and begged of God to release her soul; which was granted. Arab. Gorion.—But most believe that she suffered martyrdom immediately after her children. Jos. and so forth—The Church honoured these martyrs from the earliest ages, and before any other of the Old Testament. We may justly style them the martyrs of the resurrection, as none at that time had spoken of it so distinctly. SS. Naz. Max. of Turin, Gaudentius, and so forth have pronounced panegyrics upon them.