She didn't want to marry the man picked by her father so hid out in some mines, and befriended miners. When her father eventually found her he beheaded her. That's the story around the statue in the middle of Kalgoorlie-Boulder. Google says that it was because she became a Christian against her father's wishes. It also says that he was killed by lightning after beheading her. Nicodemia, now Izmit, Turkey.