ON SAINT EULOGIUS XENODOCHUS,
AT CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE CHURCH OF SAINT MOCIUS.
CommentaryEulogius Xenodochus, at Constantinople (Saint)
G. H.
George Codinus, On the Origins of Constantinople, page 37 of the Louvre edition, elsewhere 79, treating of the Buildings of this city, writes this: "Constantine the Great dedicated the temples of Saints Mocius and Menas, At Constantinople in the temple of Saint Mocius, which were formerly temples of idols. And indeed Saint Menas, with only the images cast out and a new name bestowed, he left as it was: the temple of Saint Mocius, then twice as great as it is now, he shortened by half, and there he raised an altar. Since indeed there Saint Mocius had formerly been killed, for that reason he dedicated this temple to his name, and transferred his body thither. Saint Mocius or Mutius is venerated by the Greeks on May 11, by the Latins on the 13th of the same month. When afterwards that temple had collapsed, in the time of Justinian the Great it was rebuilt, and has remained safe to this time."
Saint Eulogius Xenodochus is venerated on the 27th day In this temple lived, or at least buried he obtained sacred veneration, Saint Eulogius Xenodochus, whom the Greeks assert to have rested in peace, and they venerate him in the printed Menaia and Parisian manuscripts of Cardinal Mazarin and Dijon of Chifflet, and in Maximus, Bishop of Cythera, and on April 28. and that on this April 27. But on the following day April 28, a place is assigned to him in the manuscript Synaxarion of the Parisian College of Clermont of the Society of Jesus in these words: "Καὶ μνήμη Εὐλογίου τοῦ Ξενοδόχου ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ Μωκίῳ." "And the memory of Eulogius the Xenodochus at Saint Mocius." His office is expressed in a subjoined distich from the Menaia: where it is desired that Abraham, in the name of Christ a receiver of guests in heaven, should receive Eulogius as a guest, as he who was a receiver of guests in life. But the Greek verses are of this sort:
"Τὸν Εὐλόγιον, ὡς ξενιστὴν τῶν ξένων, Χριστοῦ ξενιστὴς Ἀβραὰμ ξενιζέτω."
"Let Abraham, the receiver of Christ as a guest, receive as a guest Eulogius, as a receiver of strangers."
At what time, however, Saint Eulogius flourished there is not established. Perhaps when the temple of Saint Mocius was rebuilt by Justinian.