Eusebius

ON SAINT EUSEBIUS

BISHOP OF SAMOSATA IN SYRIA

IN THE YEAR 379.

PRELIMINARY COMMENTARY

On the cult of the Saint, especially among the Greeks.

Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata in Syria (St.)

F. B.

Among the more illustrious Saints, who against the Arian perfidy bravely contended, deservedly to be numbered is Eusebius Bishop of Samosata. In the Roman Martyrology referred to the 21st of June, Now Samosata was a city of Syria on the river Euphrates, the head of the Region of Commagene, episcopal under the Archbishop of Hierapolis, now destroyed. This Saint on the preceding day into the Roman Martyrology referred the authority of Baronius: for he reckoned Eusebius in the older Martyrologies on that day found, is restored to this his proper day, the 22nd; to be the same whom on this day to be worshipped report the Menaia of the Greeks: others Eusebius of Caesarea the author of the Ecclesiastical history him to be opining, Florentinius thinking the contrary, and a third Eusebius bringing forth, of Caesarea in Cappadocia the Bishop the predecessor of St. Basil the Great; as was said more fully on the preceding day. But whatever it be about that Eusebius of Caesarea and the opinion of Baronius, of Florentinius or of others; on which at the Arcadianae of Constantinople he is worshipped, more advisedly we shall judge, Eusebius of Samosata on this day to propose with the Menaia of the Greeks: for whatever foundation the name of Eusebius on the 21st of June may bring, to the cult of the Samosatene to that day to claim; that whole overturns the added name of Caesarea, whether of Palestine, it to be you understand, or of Cappadocia; for in neither place the Samosatene either lived, or died, or any cult special obtained: so that those words about him to be received cannot.

[2] But indeed on this day, the 22nd of June, his memory celebrates the Greeks' Synaxary belonging to the College of Paris of the Society of Jesus, with added too the place of his more solemn cult, with these words: "But is celebrated his commemoration in the prophet-shrine of holy John near the Arcadianae." That is, Celebrated his Synaxis in the Prophetic shrine of St. John near the Arcadianae, namely the Baths by Arcadius the Emperor, as has Codinus in Du Cange; or by Arcadia his daughter as in the same others built. But "Propheteium" a temple or oratory signifies to a holy Prophet such as is also St. John the Baptist, With a whole Office dedicated. In the Menaia of the Greeks at Venice printed, thus his death is announced from the metrical Ephemeris. "On the twenty-second they crushed the head of Eusebius." On the twenty- second they crushed the head of Eusebius. There is prescribed on the same day an Office of the Saint, which begins at vespers with the "similar Verses," that is, with stichera prosomoia; where is praised St. Eusebius as a true Bishop, the strength of the Orthodox, the eye of the Church, a luminary sending in the light of understanding, possessing the felicity of the Martyrs; the defender of truth; and full of his praises, a great assailer of falsity, a river of wisdom going out from Eden, and watering the earth with spiritual streams; a goblet overflowing with divine liquid for submerging the followers of Arius; a column of fire leading the new people, by divine grace fostering piety, impiety dissipating; the beauty of those to be rewarded, the glory of Priests, falsely cutting out the tares, the wheat heavenly gathering; a fountain of miracles continually flowing, a fire drying up diseases.

[3] At Matins is placed a canon, which by St. Joseph the hymnographer composed testifies the name added to this acrostic: "Of Piety, the bearing-the-name I venerate." I praise the man bearing the name of piety, both in Vespers and in the Matins Canon. where there is an allusion to the meaning of the name Eusebius, which "pious and religious" in Latin is rendered. In the first and third ode of that Canon it is said the Saint with the love of Christ kindled from youth the desires of the flesh to the Spirit to have subjugated. With the unguent of grace anointed, to have led the people into the pastures of sanctity; and at last with a stole from his blood purple adorned, upward to have directed his course into the Holy places; and on account of the impious of Arius dogmas, having suffered persecution and a violent death, held worthy of immortal glory. With such also encomia in the other of the same Canon sacred odes is praised the Saint with which there is no need to linger. The distich, which is premised to the eulogy, the kind of death denotes. "A tile, Eusebius Martyr of the Lord, straightway and a crown upon your head." Eusebius Martyr of Christ a tile to your Crown to the head Royal. The eulogy from the Menaia. There follows this Eulogy: "This man was under Constantius the emperor; a fervent zealot of the orthodox faith. So great was to him bravery of soul, and of present things contempt, and through zeal he made, that the things of piety and orthodoxy unto increase might come. Although the emperor disagreeing as no other one, and then Constantius his right hand to cut off threatening if not the by the great Meletius decree holding he himself should hold forth and betray, both hands he stretched out, as gladly of them receiving the cutting-off, than the sought-for to betray to him the piety. This our holy father after Constantius and Julian, Valens the Arian misbelief being sick of from the throne drove out. and to lead beyond the borders by the Ister river he condemns. Of whom after the end to the city Lachusa the Holy one returning after the many contests and the over them victories of a martyric obtained end. A woman ill-doctrined, and the of Arius things minding, a tile from the roof of someone upon the head of the Holy one casting whom also of pardon he held worthy his own master, and the protomartyr imitating Stephen." Which thus into Latin I render. He flourished under Constantius the Emperor, a zealot ardent of the orthodox faith. So great was his greatness of soul and of present things contempt, and so great for religion solicitude, that piety and the orthodox faith a great increase took. his contests for the faith And when the Emperor heretical, not some extraneous one, but who then reigned Constantius, had ordered his right hand to be amputated, unless the decree which for the great Meletius written had been, and his death explaining; and which he himself with himself kept, holding out he should betray and render, both hands he extended alacritously, more gladly offering to be cut off, than that he should betray to him, what he sought, the of piety testimony. This our holy Father, after Constantius and Julian, Valens the Arian perfidy as a certain sedition promoting, the throne obtained, into exile drove: in whose time at the Ister river, his life he passed. but wrongly to Lachusa it ascribing The Emperor being dead the Saint returned into the city Lachusa, after many contests and through contests victories, the reward of Martyrdom obtained; a woman heretical of the sect Arian onto the head of the Saint a tile from the roof casting, to whom however

the Saint pardon of the offense granted, in it his Lord and the Protomartyr Stephen imitating. In nearly the same manner the Saint's praises embraces the Menology of Grottaferrata, written by order of the Emperor Basil Porphyrogennetus, without that error which into the Menaia crept; for Dolicha. writing "Lachusa" as the city; such as none there is that I know. Theodoret, as below we shall see, "Dolicha" called where the Saint was slain, which city of Syria episcopal is in the region of Commagene on the river Marsyas.

[4] These are which from the Menaia about the cult and virtues of so excellent a Martyr to gather I could. I wonder moreover that no among the sacred Historians except Theodoret of him exists memory, Acts from Theodoret who however abundantly will suffice in narrating his deeds. The other things which from St. Basil's Acts to be repeated would be, how namely for Basil's election he labored together with each Nazianzen Gregory; how the care of the legations to the West to be sent with Basil he undertook and to him an exile commended he wished his church and from him consolatory letters received; since Basil they properly regard, enough to be I judged if there in their place they were read. Those things which properly Eusebius regard, all to three heads are reduced under as many diverse Emperors: under Constantius an excellent for the Church contest, under Valens a glorious exile, under Theodosius an illustrious Martyrdom.

ACTS

From Theodoret.

Eusebius, Bishop of Samosata in Syria (St.)

BY F. B.

CHAPTER I.

The constancy of Eusebius in keeping the decree deposited with him.

[1] At the time when Constantius at Antioch was staying, the truce being renewed and finished the Persian war, Eudoxius from Antioch to Constantinople transferred, the Bishops again he gathered, and all both of the consubstantial and of a different substance words to reject he compelled. There was then the Antiochene See of a Pastor destitute; since Eudoxius, who after Leontius the Antiochene See had occupied, thence expelled had been, and after many Synods the Constantinopolitan church illegitimately held. The Bishops therefore, who then there had assembled (and there were very many from diverse Provinces gathered) first indeed that a Pastor to the flock to be set should be said, then together with him about the doctrine of the faith to be consulted. About the same time the divine Meletius, The Arians take care that Meletius be substituted; of a certain city in Armenia the Bishop, since the contumacy of his Flock to bear he could not, elsewhere had migrated, and there in leisure was living. Him the Arians to consent to them and of their dogmas a partaker to be reckoning, asked of Constantius that of the Antiochene church the administration to him he should commit; for all laws boldly they violated, while their impiety to confirm they strove: and the of laws transgression, a foundation to them was of blasphemy: of this kind certainly many in many in places they innovated. and the decree they hand over to the Samosatene. But of the Apostolic dogmas the defenders, to whom of the great Meletius both the soundness of doctrine, and of life the sanctity, and of virtues the abundance well known was, consent afforded; and with the highest zeal took care, that a Decree about that matter should be written out, and by all the subscriptions be confirmed: and that Decree, both these, both those as a common deed to Eusebius the Samosatene Bishop to be kept handed over, the noble champion of truth.

[2] And when the great Meletius, the Imperial letters received, had come, all the Bishops to meet him went forth: but also the rest of the Church Orders and the whole of the people multitude to meet ran: The Bishops in the exposition of the faith varying, there were present too the Jews and the Gentiles, that most renowned Meletius to see desiring. The Emperor indeed, both him and others who in the faculty of speaking excelled, exhorted, that those words, "The Lord created me the beginning of his ways unto his works," to the people they should expound. And the sayings of each by the notaries to be received he ordered; so to be about to be believing that a more accurate exposition by each would be brought. And first indeed George of Laodicea the Bishop, the heretical venom vomited forth. After this Acacius the Bishop of Caesarea a certain middle brought forth exposition, which from their indeed blasphemy was distant much, a pure however and sincere of the Apostolic doctrine mark by no means retained. The third at last rose the great Meletius; and what was the right rule of Theology demonstrated. Meletius the orthodox brings forth To the truth indeed as to a level all things directing, neither anything more, nor less than just to say he was careful. And when an immense applause and acclamation of the multitude had followed, and all him begged that a compendious to them doctrine he would hand over, having shown three fingers, with great applause of the people and then two pressed together, and one as it was left, that memorable he brought forth sentence: "Three there are which are understood, but as one we address."

[3] But those whose souls the Arian stain had infected, against this doctrine their tongues sharpened and a calumny wove against the divine Meletius, as if he Sabellius's dogma followed. and with the murmur of the Arians; And by that Euripus, who hither and thither rashly was borne, into their opinion drawn, they brought about that he into his fatherland was relegated: and immediately Euzoius into his place they substituted, who the opinions of Arius patronized: for him still the Diaconate office performing the great Alexander together with Arius had condemned. who, him expelled, substitute Euzoius: Soon therefore the sounder part of the people from those who with the Arian stain were touched, itself breaking away, in the Apostolic church which in the old as they call it city is situated to be gathered began. For after the snares for that excellent Eustathius laid, thirty thereafter years the impiety of the Arians they endured, the matter into a better state to be changed hoping. But when the impiety more and more among them to grow they saw, and those indeed who the Apostolic doctrine kept, both openly to be assailed and with secret snares to be sought; and the divine indeed Meletius to be thrust out, Euzoius indeed the patron of the sect of the Arians into his place to be substituted, they recalled then of those things which were said once to Blessed Lot, "Saving save your soul." whence arose at Antioch a schism: To memory too they recalled the Evangelical laws, which expressly enjoin; "If your right eye scandalize you, pluck it out and cast it from you." And the same law about hand and foot the Lord laid, this adding: "For better it is for you that perish one of your members, than that the whole body be sent into Gehenna." And the of the Antiochene indeed Church division happened in this manner.

[4] Moreover the admirable Eusebius, to whom as above I have related had been commended the common Decree, when the pacts agreed to be violated he perceived, Eusebius returned to Samosata into the city to him committed returned. But the Arians fearing lest by their own subscriptions they should be convicted, persuaded Constantius that he should send someone, who that Decree should demand from Eusebius: whom obeying the Emperor, one of those sent, who, with public horses changed, journeys to accomplish, and to render the Decree made for Meletius ordered, and as swiftly as possible answers to bring are wont. He when to Eusebius had come and the Emperor's commands to him had set forth, then the admirable Eusebius; "Not can I," he said, "the common Deposit restore, unless gathered first all the Bishops, who to me it commended." And the messenger indeed this to the Emperor reported. He indeed with anger kindled, again wrote, the Decree to be rendered ordering: and he adds that he had ordered, that the right hand to him should be cut off, unless he wish to lose his right hand, unless the Decree he had rendered. But this for the sake of terror only to be struck in he had written: for to the bearer of the letter he ordered, that what he himself had threatened he should not execute. But that Divine man, the Emperor's letters read through, when the punishment which to him was intended he had learned; together with his right his left too hand he stretched out, he offers each hand. both to be cut off bidding: for "the Decree," he said, "not will I render, by which the Arians' wickedness most openly is convicted." This his fortitude when Constantius had learned, both then praised much, and afterward to admire did not cease. For even enemies the excelling virtue of their adversaries admire, by the magnitude of the deeds compelled. About the same time Constantius when he had learned Julian, whom in Europe Caesar he had constituted, new things to be devising, and against his author forces to be gathering; Constantius dies. he from Syria having departed in Cilicia his last day met. For neither him a helper he had, whom his father to him had left; inasmuch as he the paternal piety's inheritance whole and untouched had not kept. For which cause dying bitterly he lamented, that the faith he had changed. These things were done in the year 361 before the month of November, for on the third of November Constantius died.

CHAPTER II.

Eusebius is relegated into exile.

[5] Eudoxius, who at that time of the Constantinopolitan church still the helm held, Valens having sworn to defend Arianism, not steering the ship, but rather sinking it; when Valens with the Baptism's Sacrament he initiated, by an oath the wretch to this bound, that in the impiety of the dogma he should persevere and contrary thinkers in all places he should expel. Thus Valens, the Apostolic doctrine left, to the adversaries' parts himself joined. Thence, a brief time intervening, the rest which under the oath's faith he had promised, Eusebius he orders to be deported into Thrace. he fulfilled. For from the city indeed of Antioch the great Meletius; from Samosata indeed the divine Eusebius he cast down: the Laodicean indeed church of an excellent Pastor he bereaved Pelagius … and this one indeed into Arabia he relegated; the great Meletius indeed into Armenia, Eusebius indeed into Thrace to be deported he ordered, a man in apostolic labors exercised. He namely when many churches of Pastors widowed to be he had found, a military habit taking, and a tiara on his head placed, He, the messenger bidden to be silent, consults his life Syria, Phoenicia and Palestine traversed; Presbyters ordaining and Deacons, and the other Church Orders supplying: and if ever Bishops the same with him doctrine of faith professing he had found, them Bishops over the Churches needing he set.

[6] But how great greatness of soul and prudence he showed, then when the Emperor's letters he received, by which to set out into Thrace he was bidden, necessary it to be I judge that may learn those who are ignorant. There had come perhaps toward evening the Minister of the Imperial command: Eusebius indeed him admonished, that he should be silent, and the cause of his coming should conceal: under night into Zeugma he crosses; "For if the people," he said, "with Divine zeal endowed, this shall have learned; you indeed it will drown, but from me of your death the penalty will be exacted." This when he had said, and the evening Office according to custom had celebrated, under the very of sleep beginnings, in one servant confiding, alone he went out, an old man on foot going. There followed him the servant, a cushion only and a codex bearing. And when to the bank of the river he had come (for the Euphrates the very of the city washes walls) a boat he boarded, and the rowers ordered that toward Zeugma they should hasten. The light arisen he himself indeed Zeugma entered; but the Samosatenes' city with laments and mourning meanwhile full was. For when that servant to the necessaries of Eusebius those things which had been ordered had indicated, and whom he with himself to set out, and what codices to himself to be brought he wished; all of their Pastor's absence to lament began, and the river's channel was filled with sailers' crowd. And when to Zeugma they had come, and the desired Pastor they beheld; wailing and grieving, where to the citizens coming to him he bids farewell. and into tears poured out to persuade him they tried that he should remain, nor his Flock to wolves should expose: but when bent he could not be, and the law Apostolic to them he recited, which expressly enjoins

that obeyed are to be the Magistrates and Powers; some gold and silver, some a garment, some servants offered, as to one into a foreign and far distant region going. But he, a few certain things from those who more to him familiar were having accepted: when all with the preachings of his and prayers he had fortified, and exhorted them, that for the Apostolic doctrine bravely they should fight, to the Ister proceeded; they indeed to their city returned, and themselves with mutual exhortations inciting, the wolves' incursions awaited.

[7] But I also of their faith the ardor and sincerity in this place will commemorate: an injury me to be about to do reckoning unless their virtues to the perpetual of posterity memory by my writing I should consecrate: There was substituted for him Eunomius, for when the Arians, after the taken-away of the Flock the excellent Pastor, in his place another had substituted, no one of the inhabitants of the city, not the poor, not the rich; not the servant, not the workman; not the farmer, not the gardener; not man, not woman; not the youth; not the old man, a mild man, the assemblies Ecclesiastical according to custom frequented. Alone he himself lived, since no one him to see, no one to address wished. They say however that he with no mean mildness endowed was: of which thing a most certain proof is, that which I shall say. When to wash sometime he wished, the servants of the baths the doors closed, those who to enter wished from the entrance forbidding; he himself indeed the people before the doors standing having beheld, them ordered to be opened, and all promiscuously with himself to wash. the citizens' hatreds not bearing he departs: The same too within in the chambers of the baths he did: for when to him washing certain standing-by he had seen, them that the warm waters with himself together they should use, he asked. And when they silent stood, he, of honor to himself for the sake to stand them suspecting, rising from the bath quickly withdrew. Then indeed they the water, with the heresy's sin to have been contaminated reckoning, it into the subterranean stalls let in; another indeed to themselves to be poured ordered. This he having learned from the city departed, foolish to be reckoning, and plainly inconsiderate in that city to live, which him abhorred, and with public pursued hatred. Eunomius having departed from Samosata, his successor Lucius experiencing himself no less odious, for so that one was called, the Arians in his place Lucius constituted; a wolf plainly and of the Flock the plotter. But the Flock, although of a Pastor bereaved, the Pastor's office however fulfilled; the Apostolic doctrine whole and inviolate perpetually it kept. But how the citizens all that one too abhorred, this other will teach narration. On a certain day youths a ball among themselves tossed in the forum, in that game themselves delighting. more Orthodox he expels in vain Perhaps it happened that as was passing there Lucius the slipped ball between the feet of that ass passed through. Then indeed cried out the youths, the ball to have been contaminated reckoning: which when he had understood, to one of his servants who followed, he ordered that he should stop, and what they were about to do should observe. But the boys, a pyre kindled, and the ball through the flame thrown, it so to be expiated believed. Indeed I am not ignorant, that a childish that deed was, and of an old custom certain relics: but yet from it abundantly may be conjectured, with how grievous hatred that city pursued the sect of the Arians.

[8] For the rest Lucius the mildness of Eunomius by no means imitated: but he persuaded the Governors, that several other of the Sacerdotal Order men into exile they should send; and among them Antiochus the kinsman of Eusebius those indeed who the divine dogmas more keenly than the rest defended, into the farthest shores of the Roman Empire he relegated: Evolcius indeed a Deacon, into the Oasis a desert little town. Antiochus indeed both by the great Eusebius's kinship (for he was of his brother the son) and by many deeds renowned and besides with the Priesthood's honor adorned, into a certain of Armenia corner. But how that one for the divine dogma contended, the following will demonstrate. For when the divine Eusebius after many contests and as many in number victories, with Martyrdom his life had consummated, there assembled according to custom a synod of the Province: there came too Jovian, who then was Bishop of Perga, who a very small time the communion of the Arians had admitted. of the exile in Thrace from the year 373, When therefore all Antiochus the successor of his uncle had chosen, and to the altar him were leading, and the knees to bend were compelling, having turned he, after Jovian he saw a hand to his head placing, the right of him repulsed, and him from the number of the Consecrators to be removed ordered; denying himself that right to bear to be able, which Sacraments through blasphemy made had received. But this indeed not long after happened; then indeed into the farther Armenia he was led away. But the divine Eusebius at the Ister was living, the Goths Thrace laying waste, and the cities assailing, as from his writings to be known can.

[9] It will seem perhaps to some that thus narrates Theodoret as if immediately from the undertaken sacrilegious Baptism, Valens Eusebius into exile cast: yet so to be understood it ought not; and meanwhile by St. Basil's letters comforted. but that from the beginning the perjury impiously uttered through deeds more impious to fulfill busying himself, the orthodox to persecute he began now this now that into exile proscribing, and so by the continued persecution Eusebius too with the same penalty mulcted about the year 373 when to him in Thrace living this exile, as an excellent to his virtues and for Christ afflictions a crown, congratulates the great Basil, in these words to him writing: "You have become superior to those persecuting you, then when from your paternal soil not unwillingly, but with a great plainly soul you withdrew an exile. The native soil let others whatever their own inhabit, we that supernal city obtain. The Episcopal perhaps throne our others have occupied, we to Christ it exhibit. O what and of what kind a trade! how great will we carry back for what kind of despised things! Through fire and water we have passed: we hope that we shall come out also into refreshment, for neither will forsake us unto the end God, nor truth by persecution prostrated will behold and suffer; but according to the multitude of our pains the consolations of him will gladden our soul."

CHAPTER III.

The return of Eusebius and his Martyrdom.

In the year 377 Valens, from Antioch to go out compelled, the Goths Thrace devastating; as this war growing strong, by other cares distracted he had ceased from those into exile to send, Valens late repenting recalls the exiles in the year 376 who the faith of the Consubstantial embraced; so now much more, recognizing perhaps the avenging God's hand, but by late repentance led, the Orthodox from exiles he recalls: to return therefore began among them Eusebius, but before Gratian's empire Samosata he did not reach. Meanwhile how the Lord God, men with fury and madness against him raised, very long endures, and how he punishes those who his patience abuse, and he perishes badly. of Valens the end clearly demonstrates; with mercy and justice, as with certain scales and balances, using the most Clement Lord, where someone he shall have seen by the magnitude of crimes the measure of clemency to exceed, the impetus to further things tending with just animadversion he represses.

[10] But Gratian the son of Valentinian whose Valens uncle had been, of the Roman Empire the sum obtained. There succeeds Gratian, For already before the of Europe sceptres after the death of his father he had received. But also by him still surviving into the partnership of the empire he had been taken: but Valens without children extinct, by whom the Bishops to be restored Asia too and the remaining of Africa part to his empire he joined. Immediately therefore the piety, which in his soul implanted he had, more manifest he rendered; and of his empire the firstfruits to the highest of all Emperor he consecrated. For a law passed he ordered that the Pastors who into exile had been sent should return, and the Churches to the catholics to be restored ordering, and to their Flocks be restored, and that the buildings sacred to those should be handed who with Damasus communicated. Now this Damasus Bishop was of the city of Rome, who after Liberius of that Church the care had undertaken; a man by sanctity of life conspicuous and who for the Apostolic doctrine nothing not to say prepared was. Moreover together with the law Sapor too the Master of soldiers he sent, Eusebius returns, who then most renowned was held: and the of the Arian indeed blasphemy preachers, as certain wild beasts, from the sacred buildings to be excluded he ordered; but to the best Pastors and the divine Flock the same to be restored. And that indeed in the single Provinces without controversy to execution was committed.

[11] Then the great Eusebius, from exile returned, of Beroea indeed Acacius, whose renowned fame is, Bishop ordained; and various Bishops he ordains of Hierapolis indeed Theodotus, whose religious conversation by all's discourses even now is proclaimed. Eusebius besides to Chalcis and Isidore to Cyrrhus our city Bishops he gave; each of admiration worthy, and with divine zeal remarkable, but also Eulogius, who for the Apostolic doctrine most bravely had contended, and into the town Antinous together with Protogenes had been relegated, Bishop of Edessa by him ordained they report. For Barces that admirable already from the living had departed. Moreover Eulogius Protogenes, who of his contests a partaker had been, at Carrhae Bishop constituted, to the city ill faring a salutary physician giving. which at Dolicha about to do, The last of all Maris by the divine Eusebius of Dolicha Bishop was created. A city it is small, which at that time with the Arian stain was infected: this therefore the praiseworthy man and with many of virtues' marks shining, when there into the Sacerdotal throne to place wished the great Eusebius, Dolicha he entered. To him entering a woman certain, with the Arian stain stained, a tile from the upper of the buildings part let in; a tile cast on his head he is injured which his head crushed, nor much after to a better life him sent. But he dying those who were present by an oath bound, that from the woman the penalties of this deed any they should not exact: to imitate indeed he strove his Lord, who for those by whom he had been crucified, said: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do"; and his fellow-servant Stephen, who after of stones a most dense shower, cried out; and dying for the author of his death he prays. "Lord, lay not to them this sin." This end of life, after various at last contests, obtained the great Eusebius: and who the Barbarians in Thrace living had escaped, of the impious heretics the hands to avoid could not; but by their work the Martyrdom's crown he obtained. And these indeed were done after the return of the Bishops. To these moreover nothing to be added remains, the of the More-ancient authority failing. The Body is translated to Constantinople. This however to say by conjecture be permitted, on some occasion hitherto to us unknown his body translated to Constantinople to the church of St. John the Baptist there by signs to have become renowned; since in the hymn of the divine Office it is said "A fountain of miracles continually flowing and a fire drying up diseases."