2 Maccabees 3:25-27

New Catholic Bible

²⁵ For there appeared to them a horse magnificently caparisoned, mounted by a rider of terrifying mien. Charging furiously, the horse attacked Heliodorus with its front hooves. The rider was seen to be accoutred entirely in golden armor. ²⁶ Then two young men, remarkably strong, strikingly beautiful, and magnificently attired, also appeared before him. Taking their stand on either side of him, they flogged him unremittingly, inflicting numerous blows on him.

²⁷ Suddenly he fell to the ground, enveloped in a great darkness. His men picked him up and laid him on a stretcher.