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to walk and to restrain laughter, and to be gentle and formidable at the right time, and to inquire appropriately .1.8 of those in need of something. Not least did she lead him to piety, by accustoming him to pray constantly and to attend the churches and to honor the houses of prayer with votive offerings and treasures, and to hold in honor the priests and other.1. good men and those who live as philosophers according to the law of the Christians. But not only that, but also when religion was in danger of being innovated by spurious doctrines, she zealously and wisely took a stand. And that new heresies did not prevail in our times we will find that she was the principal cause, as we shall see in what follows. .1.10 Worshipping the divine with great reverence, it would be a long story to tell among which people and how many houses of prayer she magnificently built, how many hospices for the poor and for strangers and monastic communities she established, having ordered a perpetual expenditure for these and for the maintenance of the inhabitants. .1.11 But if anyone wishes to test the truth from the facts and not to be persuaded by my words, he will learn that I do not write these things falsely nor to curry favor, if he should go through the recorded knowledge of such things from the administrators of her household and inquire from those registered, .1.12 whether the facts agree with the record. But for whom these things alone are not sufficient for belief, let God himself also be a witness, who surely held her in favor on account of her way of life, so as to readily listen to her when she prayed and often to reveal to her what was to be done. For I would never say that the love of God comes to men, unless they show themselves worthy of it through their deeds. .1.13 But as for the particular proofs showing that the emperor's sister was beloved of God, I will willingly omit them for now, lest someone should blame me for having turned to the style of encomia while dealing with other matters. But what seems to me to be both proper to ecclesiastical history and a manifest proof of her being beloved of God, I will relate straightway, even if it happened later in time. It is as follows: .2.1 A certain woman, Eusebia by name, a deaconess of the Macedonian heresy, had a house and a garden before the wall of Constantinople; and there she kept the holy relics of the forty soldiers who were martyred in Sebasteia of Armenia during the time of Licinius. .2.2 And being about to die, she left the aforementioned place to monks of the same belief, and begged them with oaths to bury her there, and above her head at the top to hollow out her own coffin privately and to place with her the relics of the martyrs, and to reveal it to no one. .2.3 And they did so. So that the martyrs might receive fitting reverence, and those outside be ignorant, according to the agreement with Eusebia, they built a house of prayer underground around her tomb, and into the visible building above, its floor was covered with baked bricks, and from it a hidden descent to the martyrs. .2.4 After this Caesarius, a man then in power, who advanced to the dignity of consul and prefect, buried his deceased wife beside the coffin of Eusebia; for this they had agreed upon while they were still living, being exceedingly fond of one another and of the same mind concerning doctrine and religion. .2.5 From this arose a pretext for Caesarius to acquire this place, so that he too might be buried near his wife. And the aforementioned monks moved elsewhere, having confessed nothing about the martyrs. .2.6 After the house collapsed afterwards, and earth and rubbish were thrown upon it, the entire place there was leveled, since Caesarius himself erected there a magnificent temple to God in honor of Thyrsus the martyr. But, as it seems, God willed for the aforementioned place to be so carefully hidden and for so much time to pass, making the discovery of the martyrs more marvelous and more illustrious, and the piety of her who found them. And of the emperor was the .2.7

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