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sickness, and every infirmity, grant grace to your handmaiden, so that whoever comes to the place where my relic is laid, and where the sanctified waters are, you may grant them healing of soul and body, so that in these things also your all-holy name may be glorified, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit.” And when she had sent up the Amen, a voice came from heaven, saying: “Come, my sanctified champion, rest in the chambers of my Father in heaven. And all that you have asked has been granted to you by me.” And hearing these things, the blessed martyr of Christ came to the place, and her head was cut off by the sword of her father, together with the holy Juliana in the same place. And as Dioscorus her father was coming down from the mountain, fire fell from heaven and consumed him, so that not even his dust could be seen or found. 18. Truly the martyr put a beautiful end to her struggle. For having offered a prayer for her contests in the tower, she set up prayer as the crown for them as well. And what is the power of the prayer? She asked her own bridegroom Christ to be merciful to those who celebrate her memory, with the forgiveness of their transgressions and the healing of their diseases. And he, having received her supplication, promises to bring her desire to fulfillment, and through his own voice informs her and gives assurance. And she wholeheartedly stretched out her neck to the sword; but the child-murdering father mercilessly inflicted the blow. And she was escorted to heavenly abodes and a prepared rest, but he was brought down to the depths of Tartarus in Hades, and to gloomy chambers, and to a prepared punishment. And she had bright angels guiding her to the ascent, but he had grim and terrible demons, dragging him unwillingly to the descent. Oh how could one worthily lament, you all-wretched and miserable one! How did you not shudder to cut off the holy head of the martyr! How did your hand not grow numb from delivering the fatal cut to your own daughter? But truly you received the swiftest wages for your merciless cruelty, and from evil seeds you reaped more evil sheaves, and the worthy vengeance of Judas the betrayer came upon you. For a thunderbolt sent from heaven incinerated your worthless body and the 96.808 Sodomitic fire struck you down here, but the unquenchable flame of Gehenna will receive you there. For you were no longer worthy to live, lest being pointed at you be called the father of the martyr. No longer does your house endure to receive you, from which you expelled the virgin and all-praised one. 19. But you, my lamb of Christ, and dove, and bride, and whatever name is good, and graceful, and honorable, hail, having nobly run the double course of the contests. Hail, who have received prizes worthy of your struggles. Hail, to whom many rewards are owed for many contests. Hail, who conquered the passionate leapings of the flesh with sober reasoning. Hail, who in the youth of your age guided the senses of the body with the wisdom and prudence of age. Hail, who even before martyrdom, promised to keep your virginity for Christ, pure and undefiled. Hail, who did not defile the beauty of the body with passions, but dedicated and entrusted it untouched to the Creator. Hail, who in the tower as in a safe fortress and a virgins’ oratory, sent up frequent and sincere prayers to God, and by the unerring contemplation of beings were led up to the Creator, and insatiably delighted in the only truly good and beloved one. Hail, who in the bath for the cleansing of the body's filth symbolically represented the Trinity through the triple window-lighting, and who typologically depicted the mystical and saving baptism of souls by the threefold bestowal of light. Hail, who straightway most clearly confessed with theological precision the faith of the consubstantial Trinity

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νόσον, καὶ πᾶσαν μαλακίαν, παράσχου τῇ δούλῃ σου χάριν, ἵνα ὅσοι ἂν προσέλθωσιν τῷ τόπῳ ἔνθα τὸ λείψανόν μου ἀπόκειται, καὶ εἰσὶ τὰ ἡγιασμένα ὕδατα, δώρησαι αὐτοῖς ἴασιν ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος, ἵνα καὶ ἐν τούτοις δοξάζηται τὸ πανάγιον ὄνομά σου, ἅμα τῷ Πατρὶ καὶ τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι.» Καὶ ἀναπεμψάσης αὐτῆς τὸ, Ἀμὴν, ἐγένετο φωνὴ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, λέγουσα· «∆εῦρο, ἡγιασμένη μου ἀθληφόρος, ἀναπαύου εἰς τὰ ταμιεῖα τοῦ Πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς. Πάντα δὲ ὅσα ἂν ᾐτήσω, δεδώρηταί σοι παρ' ἐμοῦ.» Καὶ ταῦτα ἀκούσασα ἡ μακαρία μάρτυς τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον, καὶ ἀπετμήθη τὴν κεφαλὴν ὑπὸ τοῦ ξίφους τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῆς, σὺν τῇ ἁγίᾳ Ἰουλιανῇ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ τόπῳ. Κατερχομένου δὲ ∆ιοσκόρου τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ ὅρους, πῦρ ἔπεσεν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ κατέφαγεν αὐτὸν, ὥστε μήτε τὸν χοῦν φαίνεσθαι, ἢ εὑρεθῆναι. ιηʹ. Καλὸν ὡς ἀληθῶς τῇ ἀθλήσει τὸ τέλος ἡ μάρτυς ἐπέθεικεν. Εὐχὴν γὰρ τῶν ἄθλων ἐν τῷ πύργῳ προσάξασα, εὐχὴν τούτοις καὶ τὴν κορωνίδα ἐνέστησεν. Τίς δὲ τῆς προσευχῆς ἡ δύναμις; ᾐτήσατο τὸν ἴδιον νυμφίον Χριστὸν, ἵλεων τοῖς αὐτῆς τὴν μνήμην ἐπιτελοῦσιν γενέσθαι, τῶν μὲν πλημμελημάτων τὴν ἄφεσιν, τῶν δὲ νοσημάτων τὴν ἴασιν. Ὁ δὲ τὴν ἱκεσίαν δεξάμενος, εἰς πέρας ἄγειν ὑπισχνεῖται τὴν ἔφεσιν, καὶ δι' οἰκείας φωνῆς ταύτην πληροφορεῖ, καὶ παρέχει τὴν πίστωσιν. Καὶ ἡ μὲν τὸν αὐχένα τῷ ξίφει ὁλοψύχως προέτεινεν· ὁ δὲ τεκνοκτόνος πατὴρ, τὴν πληγὴν ἀσπλάγχνως ἐπήγαγεν. Καὶ ἡ μὲν πρὸς οὐρανίους δόμους, καὶ ηὐτρεπισμένην ἐδορυφορεῖτο ἀνάπαυσιν, ὁ δὲ, εἰς ᾅδου ταρτάρους μυχοὺς, καὶ ζοφερὰ ταμιεῖα, καὶ εἰς ἡτοιμασμένην κατήγετο κόλασιν. Καὶ ἡ μὲν ἀγγέλους εἶχεν φαιδροὺς ποδηγοῦντας πρὸς τὴν ἀνάβασιν, ὁ δὲ, δαίμονας ἀμειδεῖς τε καὶ φοβεροὺς, ἕλκοντας ἀκουσίως πρὸς τὴν κατάβασιν. Ὢ πῶς ἄν τις ἀξίως θρηνήσειεν, πανάθλιε καὶ ταλαίπωρε! πῶς οὐκ ἔφριξας τὴν ἁγίαν ἀποτεμεῖν τῆς μάρτυρος κεφαλήν! πῶς σου ἡ χεὶρ οὐκ ἐνάρκησεν, τῇ ἰδίᾳ θυγατρὶ ἀναιρετικὴν ἀπενέγκαι τομήν; Ἀλλ' ὄντως ταχυτάτην ἀνηλεοῦς ἀπανθρωπίας ἐκομίσω τὰ ἐπίχειρα, καὶ τῶν πονηρῶν σπερμάτων πονηρότερα ἐδρέψω τὰ δράγματα, καὶ ἡ τοῦ προδότου σε Ἰούδα ἀξία μετῆλθεν ἐκδίκησις. Σκηπτὸς γὰρ οὐρανόθεν ἐνεχθεὶς κεραυνὸς, σῶμά σου τὸ μικρὸν ἐξετέφρωσεν καὶ τὸ 96.808 μὲν Σοδομιτικὸν ἐνταῦθά σε πῦρ ἐκεραύνωσεν, ἡ δὲ τῆς γεέννης σε φλὸξ ἄσβεστος ἐκεῖ ὑποδέξεται. Οὐ γὰρ ἔτι ἐπιβιῶναι ἐτύγχανες ἄξιος, ἵνα μὴ δακτυλοδεικτούμενος πατὴρ κληθῆναι τῆς μάρτυρος. Οὐκέτι σε ὁ σὸς οἶκος ἀνέχεται δέξασθαι, ἀφ' οὗ τινος τὴν παρθένον, καὶ πανεύφημον ἐξῴκισας. ιθʹ. Σὺ δέ μοι ἡ Χριστοῦ ἀμνὰς, καὶ περιστερὰ, καὶ νύμφη, καὶ πᾶν εἴτι οὖν ὄνομα καλὸν, καὶ χαρίεν, καὶ τίμιον, χαῖρε, γεννικῶς τῶν ἀγώνων διαδραμοῦσα τὸν δίαυλον. Χαῖρε, τῶν ἄθλων ἐπάξια κομισαμένη τὰ ἔπαθλα. Χαῖρε, ᾗπερ πολλὰ τὰ βραβεῖα ὑπὲρ πολλῶν τῶν ἀγωνισμάτων ὀφείλεται. Χαῖρε, ἡ τῶν ἐμπαθῶν τῆς σαρκὸς σκιρτημάτων λογισμῷ ἐπικρατήσασα σώφρονι. Χαῖρε, ἡ τὰς τοῦ σώματος αἰσθήσεις ἐν ἡλικίας νεότητι πρεσβυτικῶς καὶ ἐμφρόνως παιδαγωγήσασα. Χαῖρε, ἡ τὴν παρθενίαν, καὶ πρὸ τοῦ μαρτυρίου, φυλάξαι τῷ Χριστῷ καθυποσχομένη ἄχραντον καὶ ἀμίαντον. Χαῖρε, ἡ τὸ σωματικὸν κάλλος τοῖς πάθεσι μὴ ῥυπώσασα, ἀλλ' ἀνέπαφον τῷ ποιητῇ ἀναθεῖσα καὶ παραθεῖσα. Χαῖρε, ἡ ἐν τῷ πύργῳ ὡς ἐν ἀσφαλεῖ φρουρίῳ, καὶ παρθένων εὐκτηρίῳ, πυκνὰς, καὶ ἀκραιφνεῖς τῷ Θεῷ προσευχὰς ἀναπέμπουσα, καὶ τῇ ἀπλανεῖ τῶν ὄντων θεωρίᾳ πρὸς τὸν ποιητὴν ἀναχθεῖσα, καὶ τοῦ μόνου ὄντως καλοῦ τε καὶ ἐραστοῦ ἀπλήστως κατατρυφήσασα. Χαῖρε, ἡ ἐν τῷ τοῦ σωματικοῦ ῥύπου καθαρτηρίῳ λουτρῷ συμβολικῶς τὴν Τριάδα διὰ τῆς τῶν θυρίδων τριπλῆς φωταγωγίας ἐξεικονίσασα, καὶ τὸ τῇ τριττῇ φωτοδοσίᾳ ψυχῶν μυστικὸν καὶ σωτήριον τυπικῶς διαγράψασα βάπτισμα. Χαῖρε, ἡ εὐθὺς τρανότατα τὴν τῆς ὁμοουσίου Τριάδος πίστιν θεολογικῷ διομολογήσασα