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But again on the following night, the blessed Longinus appeared to her, having her son beside his side, radiant and smiling and wearing a garment as of a bridegroom, and says: "Behold him whom you longed for, O woman. This is he whom you thought was snatched from your hands. But God, having freed him, has enlisted him into the kingdom above. And now I have him with me; for I received him from the savior and he will never depart from my right hand. Therefore, take my head and the body of your child, and place them in one coffin, and weep no more for your only-begotten; for great glory has been bestowed upon him with me, and a holy altar and mystical sacrifices and much-praised choirs and public festivals, and many other things besides these which cannot be accomplished on earth, but in heaven "what eye has not seen and ear has not heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man," which things God, having shown His love toward us in deed and word, has prepared for us."

15 The mother of the youth, having received these words as the commands of a holy prophet, immediately arose and set out for her homeland. She took the all-honorable and holy head, and restored it to her own homeland, and she laid her child beside the holy relic of Saint Longinus, cheerfully and joyfully, just as Saint Longinus had commanded her, in a village called Sandralis—for from there was Saint Longinus—, crying out to herself and speaking in her heart and proclaiming with her tongue: "We know that all things work together for good for those who love God. I was seeking the eyes of the flesh, and with them I also received those of the spirit. The loss of my child grieved me, but behold, I have the heir standing before God with royal glory. I see the youth clad in purple, I behold the young man most comely. The boy is star-faced and smiling at his mother and at the side of Longinus shining like the morning star beside the sun's ray, appearing often at night, often during the day, and not only in a dream, but indeed he also appears to me openly in the manner of martyrs. His lot is with prophets, though he did not live the life of the prophets, and with Longinus he bears the cross, and he bears the august trophy of the kingdom of the heavens, and he preaches among angels, and in the midst of the company of archangels he has cried out as a disciple of Longinus whatever the seraphim grant to Longinus to glorify, and the cherubim do not contradict him as he hymns, he himself also utters a holy voice, hymning, triumphant, mystical, victorious: "Truly this was the Son of God," and is and will be; that which He is before the ages He has and will have for the ages. He makes the ages old, but He himself remains unaging; for His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and His authority will not be destroyed forever; to Him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen."

16 I, Hesychius, presbyter of Jerusalem, after much searching with great labor, was able to find the martyrdom of Saint Longinus the centurion, who said at the cross of Christ, "Truly this was the Son of God"; and I found it on a sheet of paper, in the library of the holy Anastasis, and I composed his confession along with the encomium. Therefore, let those who fear the Lord be assured that this is truly Saint Longinus the centurion, who confessed Him at the cross of Christ; by whose intercession and supplication may we all be preserved, both those who read it and those who hear, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be the glory and the power and the kingdom of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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Πάλιν δὲ τῇ ἐπιούσῃ νυκτὶ ἐπιστὰς αὐτῇ ὁ μακά ριος Λογγῖνος ἔχων τὸν αὐτῆς υἱὸν παρὰ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ πλευράν, λαμπρὸν καὶ μειδιῶντα καὶ ὥσπερ νυμφίου στολὴν ἔχοντα, λέ γει· «Ἰδὲ ὃν ἐπόθεις, ὦ γύναι. Οὗτός ἐστιν ὃν ἁρπασθῆναι τῶν σῶν χειρῶν ἐνόμισας. Θεὸς δὲ αὐτὸν ἐλευθερώσας εἰς τὴν ἄνω βασιλείαν ἐστράτευσεν. Καὶ νῦν σὺν ἐμοὶ ἔχω αὐτόν· παρὰ γὰρ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἔλαβον αὐτὸν καὶ τῆς ἐμῆς δεξιᾶς οὐδέποτε ἀπο στήσεται. Λαβοῦσα τοίνυν τὴν ἐμὴν κεφαλὴν καὶ τοῦ σοῦ παι δὸς τὸ σῶμα, ἐν μιᾷ λάρνακι παράδος καὶ μηκέτι τὸν μονογενῆ σου δάκρυε· μεγάλη γὰρ αὐτῷ σὺν ἐμοὶ δόξα δεδώρηται καὶ βωμὸς ἱερὸς καὶ θυσίαι μυστικαὶ καὶ πολυύμνητοι χορεῖαι καὶ πανηγύρεις πάνδημοι, ἄλλα τε πολλὰ πρὸς τούτοις ἃ οὐ δυνατὸν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς τελεῖσθαι, ἐν οὐρανῷ δὲ «ἃ ὀφθαλμὸς οὐκ εἶδεν καὶ οὖς οὐκ ἤκουσεν, οὐδὲ ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου ἀνέβη», ἅπερ ἡμῖν ὁ θεός, ἔργῳ καὶ λόγῳ τὴν πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἐνδειξάμενος ἀγάπην, παρεσκεύασεν.»

15 Τούτους τοὺς λόγους ἡ τοῦ νεανίσκου μήτηρ ὡς ἱεροπροφήτου δεξαμένη προστάγματα, εὐθέως ἀναστᾶσα εἰς τὴν πατρίδα ὥρμησεν. Ἔλαβεν δὲ τὴν πάντιμον καὶ ἱερὰν κεφαλήν, καὶ ἀπεκατέστησε τῇ ἰδίᾳ πατρίδι, καὶ τὸν αὐτῆς παῖδα παρὰ τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ ἁγίου Λογγίνου λείψανον ἀπέθετο φαιδρῶς καὶ περιχαρῶς, καθὼς αὐτῇ προσέταξεν ὁ ἅγιος Λογγῖνος, ἐν κώμῃ λεγομένῃ Σανδράλις-ἐκεῖθεν γὰρ ἦν ὁ ἅγιος Λογγῖνος-, πρὸς ἑαυτὴν ἀναφωνοῦσα καὶ λέγουσα ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ καὶ τῇ γλώττῃ κηρύττουσα· «Οἴδαμεν ὅτι τοῖς ἀγαπῶσι τὸν θεὸν πάντα συνεργεῖ εἰς τὸ ἀγαθόν. Ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐζήτουν σαρκός, σὺν αὐτοῖς δὲ καὶ τοὺς τοῦ πνεύματος ἔλαβον. Ἐλύπει με ζημία τέκνου, ἀλλ' ἰδοὺ τὸν κληρονόμον ἔχω μετὰ δόξης βασιλικῆς τῷ θεῷ παριστάμενον. Πορφυροφόρον τὸν νεανίαν ὁρῶ, πολυευπρεπῆ κατοπτεύω τὸν μείρακα. Ἀστεροπρόσωπος ὁ παῖς καὶ τῇ μητρὶ προσγελῶν καὶ παρὰ τὴν πλευρὰν Λογγίνου ἀστράπτων ὡς ἑωσφόρος παρὰ τὴν ἡλιακὴν ἀκτῖνα, πολλάκις μὲν νύκτωρ, πολλάκις δὲ μεθ' ἡμέραν φαινόμενος, καὶ οὐ κατ' ὄναρ μόνον, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ φανερῶς ἐμφανίζεταί μοι μαρτύρων τρόπῳ. Κλῆρος δὲ αὐτοῦ μετὰ προφητῶν, καίτοι βίον τῶν προφητῶν οὐ ζήσαντος, καὶ μετὰ Λογγίνου σταυροφορεῖ, καὶ τὸ σεμνὸν τῆς τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλείας ἐπιφέρεται τρόπαιον, καὶ μεταξὺ ἀγγέλων κηρύττει, καὶ μέσον τοῦ δήμου τῶν ἀρχαγγέλων κέκραγεν ὡς Λογγίνου μαθητὴς ὅσα τὰ σεραφὶμ Λογγίνῳ παραχωρεῖ δοξάζειν καὶ οὐκ ἀντικρούει τὰ χερουβὶμ ὑμνολογοῦντι, φθέγγεται καὶ αὐτὸς φωνὴν ἱεράν, ὑμνολόγον, τροπαιοῦχον, μυστικήν, ἐπινίκιον· «Ἀληθῶς θεοῦ υἱὸς ἦν οὗτος» καὶ ἔστι καὶ ἔσται· ὅπερ ἐστὶ πρὸ τῶν αἰώνων ἔχει καὶ εἰς αἰῶνας ἕξει. Αὐτὸς παλαιοῖ τοὺς αἰῶνας, μένει δὲ αὐτὸς ἀπαλαίωτος· ἡ γὰρ βασιλεία αὐτοῦ βασιλεία αἰώνιος καὶ ἡ ἐξουσία αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα οὐ διαφθαρήσεται· αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν».

16 Ἐγὼ Ἡσύχιος πρεσβύτερος Ἱεροσολύμων πολλὰ ἐρευνήσας μετὰ πολλοῦ καμάτου ἠδυνήθην εὑρεῖν τοῦ ἁγίου Λογγίνου τοῦ ἑκατοντάρχου, τοῦ ἐπὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰπόντος «Ἀληθῶς θεοῦ υἱὸς ἦν οὗτος», τὸ μαρτύριον· εὗρον δὲ αὐτὸ ἐν σχεδαρίῳ, ἐν τῇ βιβλιοθήκῃ τῆς ἁγίας Ἀναστάσεως, καὶ συνέταξα αὐτοῦ τὴν ὁμολογίαν μετὰ καὶ τοῦ ἐγκωμίου. Λοιπὸν οἱ φοβούμενοι τὸν κύριον πιστωθήτωσαν ὅτι οὗτός ἐστιν ἀληθῶς ὁ ἅγιος Λογγῖνος ὁ ἑκατόνταρχος, ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ὁμολογήσας αὐτόν· οὗ τῇ πρεσβείᾳ καὶ παρακλήσει διαφυλαχθείημεν ἅπαντες, οἵ τε ἀναγινώσκοντες αὐτὸ καὶ οἱ ἀκούοντες, ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν, ᾧ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος καὶ ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.