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[West door.
The festivals of the saints represented do not exactly accord with those in the Menology
of the Emperor Basil II., which was composed between the years 976 and 1028, and
which is posterior by many centuries to the foundation of the church.
All these saints lived in times anterior to the reign of Constantine; and this fact tends
to support our theory about the date of the church.
The qualification of soldier (SrparjcuTou) given to some of these saints, is preserved in
the Menology; that of UpetrSevTotj, which may perhaps be translated by the word legate, is
used in the Menology under that of IIpeo-PuTsgou, which signifies really priest. Damian is
indicated as physician, and Philemon as flute-player, conformably to tradition.
St. llomanus suffered martyrdom in the reign of Diocletian. He was a native of Antioch,
and a deacon of the church of Caesarea in Palestine. Being at his native
town one day, when the judge ordered some Christians to be tortured, he com-
forted them and rebuked the judge; for this he was thrown into prison and
there strangled, November 17th, A.D. 303.1 In the cupola he is called priest
(grpeo-fisuTO 5).
St. Eucarpion has no festival in the Menology of the Latin church. It is
known that he suffered martyrdom at Nicomcdia, in the reign of Diocletian;
he belonged to one of the legions quartered in Asia, if we may judge from the
title of soldier given in the inscription.
1 See Migne’s Encyclopedia I'heoloyique, vol. xli. p. 899.
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[West door.
The festivals of the saints represented do not exactly accord with those in the Menology
of the Emperor Basil II., which was composed between the years 976 and 1028, and
which is posterior by many centuries to the foundation of the church.
All these saints lived in times anterior to the reign of Constantine; and this fact tends
to support our theory about the date of the church.
The qualification of soldier (SrparjcuTou) given to some of these saints, is preserved in
the Menology; that of UpetrSevTotj, which may perhaps be translated by the word legate, is
used in the Menology under that of IIpeo-PuTsgou, which signifies really priest. Damian is
indicated as physician, and Philemon as flute-player, conformably to tradition.
St. llomanus suffered martyrdom in the reign of Diocletian. He was a native of Antioch,
and a deacon of the church of Caesarea in Palestine. Being at his native
town one day, when the judge ordered some Christians to be tortured, he com-
forted them and rebuked the judge; for this he was thrown into prison and
there strangled, November 17th, A.D. 303.1 In the cupola he is called priest
(grpeo-fisuTO 5).
St. Eucarpion has no festival in the Menology of the Latin church. It is
known that he suffered martyrdom at Nicomcdia, in the reign of Diocletian;
he belonged to one of the legions quartered in Asia, if we may judge from the
title of soldier given in the inscription.
1 See Migne’s Encyclopedia I'heoloyique, vol. xli. p. 899.
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