CONCERNING SAINTS JULIAN THE PHYSICIAN AND EUBULUS, MARTYRS, AND SAINT ARCADIUS OF CYPRUS, THEIR MASTER.
Under Julian.
CommentaryJulian the Physician, Martyr, in the East (Saint)
Eubulus, Martyr, in the East (Saint)
Arcadius of Cyprus, their Master, in the East (Saint)
[1] We bring forward in this our work very many Julians who were Martyrs, of whom we celebrated eight in the month of January and thirteen in February; others appear in this month of March and the following ones, but thus far we have found none who was a companion of Saint Eubulus. On February 27, Saint Julian the gouty and Eunus the servant are celebrated, but these, beaten with scourges and then cast into the fire, consummated their martyrdom. Then they have a celebrated feast among the Greeks on October 30 -- not to mention that the name Eunus is one thing and Eubulus another. Eubulus and Nymphas, of whom mention is made in the Epistles of Saint Paul, have their own veneration, also in the Greek Menaea on February 28, as on the third of the same month Saints Adrian and Eubulus are Martyrs. The veneration of Saints Julian and Eubulus: Of these, Adrian has been assigned to the Roman Martyrology on March 5, and Eubulus on March 7 of the same month; between whom on this day these two Martyrs are interposed, concerning whom the Greeks in the printed and manuscript Menaea in the possession of our Chiffletius,
and in the Lives of the Saints in Maximus of Cythera, have the following: "On the same day, Julian and Eubulus consummated their Martyrdom by the sword." In the Menaea these verses are added:
"Come, let us die by the sword, to Eubulus says Julian, bringing forth good counsel."
That is: "Come, let us die by the sword," says Julian to Eubulus, "offering salutary counsel."
[2] In the Menologion compiled by order of the Emperor Basil Porphyrogennitus, Saint Julian the Physician, the following is read: "And the contest of the holy Eubulus and Julian the Physician." The same things are read for the following day, March 7, in the very ancient Synaxarion of the Parisian Claromontane College of the Society of Jesus, and in the manuscript Menaea of the Ambrosian Library in codex 148, letter O.
[3] In the said Menologion of the Emperor Basil, again on March 8, mention is made of these Martyrs and of Saint Arcadius their instructor in these words: "Memorial of Saint Arcadius of Cyprus, and the contest of Eubulus and Julian. Saint Arcadius was a native of the island of Cyprus, Both instructed by Saint Arcadius of Cyprus, having embraced the monastic life from boyhood and being most pleasing to God on account of his upright manner of life, having begun this arena under the Emperor Constantine the Great. He benefited many not only by the example of his life and virtues, but also by his teaching and exhortations. Among these were Eubulus and Julian, who came to him more frequently and, strengthened by his discourses, They are beheaded under Julian. advanced on the path of virtue. But afterward, when the impious apostate Julian was reigning, they were seized by the idolaters, who had received from the Emperor the power to rise openly against Christians, and at length, after various torments bravely endured, they were beheaded. When Saint Arcadius learned this, he was indeed saddened; but he gave thanks to God, who had so ordered all things. Persevering, however, in the same place where he had hitherto lived, amid prayers drenched with very many tears, he ended his life." The Greeks in the printed Menaea for March 6 recite these verses about Saint Arcadius: Death of Saint Arcadius.
"His intellectual loins girded with virtues, Well-girded, Arcadius, you run toward heaven."
The memory of our holy father Arcadius is also celebrated on March 6 in the manuscript Menaea of Chiffletius, and in the Lives of the Saints in Maximus of Cythera.