The Barcelona legend explains that Santa Eulalia was a Christian girl from Sarrià, who in the third century was imprisoned for asking the prefect of Barcino, Dacian, to have the Emperor Diocletian stop persecuting the .Christians. The Roman emperor, angry, demanded that she renounce her faith and adore the Roman gods, but she not only refused, but made mockery of their gods. Then Dacian condemned her to suffer, until death, thirteen torments, as many as she had years. The legend, here, is recreated with sadism in the suffering of the saint: they locked her in an infected cell, they beat her, they stretched her skin with hooks, they made her walk on hot coals, they cut her breasts, they scrubbed her sores with pumice stone), they soaked her with boiling oil and molten lead and threw her into a lime tank. Legend has it that in the Baixada de Santa Eulalia they put her, naked, inside a vat full of crystals, nails and knives, and threw the vat down the street. They also tried to burn it, but the flames dodged it and they went towards their executioners. Later they left her in a corral full of fleas, which did not stop her. Finally, they strolled her naked through the city. And to finish killing her, they crucified her: it is said that because she believed that she did not deserve to die like Jesus Christ, she was crucified on a cross with the shape of an arrow. According to the legend, God took pity on her, and while she was hanging on the cross, a snowfall fell on her body, so that the people of Barcelona would not see her naked. At the moment of death, a white dove came out of her mouth and rose into the sky. That is why she is represented with a cross s and with a pigeon or a feather. Not only is she the patron saint of Barcelona, ​​she is also patron of the coopers, in honor of those who made the vat with which they martyred her.