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his sister, the empress Pulcheria. For the divine Thyrsus, appearing to her a third time, revealed those hidden under the earth and commanded them to be moved to himself, so that they might share the same position and honor. At the same time, the Forty themselves, clothed in brilliant cloaks, made themselves manifest to her. But the matter seemed to be beyond belief and pan.2.8 completely baffling. For neither the older clergy here, when asked many times, nor anyone else was able to identify the martyrs. At last, when all were at a loss, the divine power brought to the mind of a certain presbyter, Polychronius, who had long been one of Caesarius’s household, the monks who had once inhabited the place .2. And coming to the Macedonian clerics, he inquired about them. And finding that, with all having died, only one survived, as if preserved still among the living for the revelation of the sought-after martyrs, he begged him to tell if he knew of any holy relics hidden under the indicated space .2.10. But when, on account of the agreements with Eusebia, Polychronius saw him somewhat refusing, he both revealed the divine apparition and the empress’s vexations and their own perplexity, and he confessed that God had shown the truth to the empress; for being a young boy at that time and being thoroughly taught the monastic life under elder leaders, he knew for a fact that martyrs lay beside the sarcophagus of Eusebia; however, he did not know whether they were buried under the sanctuary or elsewhere, because much time had passed and the .2.11 former appearance of the place had changed to what was now seen. “And yet,” said Polychronius, “I have not had the same experience; for I remember being present at the burial of Caesarius’s wife, and reasoning from the nearby adjacent public road I conjecture that she lies beside the ambo” (this is the platform of the readers). “Therefore,” the monk replied, “the sarcophagus of Eusebia must also be sought beside that of Caesarius’s wife, inasmuch as even while they lived they were often .2.12 together and, upon dying, they arranged to have their tombs together.” And since it was necessary to dig according to what had been said and to search for the holy relics, having learned .2.13 these things, the empress ordered the work to begin. And when the area around the ambo was dug up, the tomb of Caesarius’s wife was found, just as Polychronius had conjectured, and a little way off to the side was a pavement of baked bricks, and a marble slab of equal measure to their perimeter; under which the sarcophagus of Eusebia herself was revealed and the oratory around it, very fittingly clad in white and purple marbles; and the lid of the tomb was fashioned like a holy table. At the head, where the martyrs lay, a small .2.14 hole appeared. And one of the emperor’s household who was standing by let down a thin rod which he happened to be holding through the hole; and drawing it up, he brought it to his nose and smelled the fragrance of myrrh. From this, good hopes came to the workers and to those in charge, and with haste uncovering .2.15 the sarcophagus, they find Eusebia. And the projecting part of the tomb at her head, which was carved around in the shape of a chest, was covered from within by its own lid; and on either side of it at the edges, an iron bar placed on top, fixed fast with lead, held it together. And in the middle, the same hole, appearing again, .2.16 showed even more clearly that it held the martyrs within. And when these things were reported, both the empress and the bishop ran together to the martyrium; and at once, when the iron bonds were removed by experts, the lid was easily pulled off; and under this, much myrrh and in the myrrh two silver .2.17 alabaster-boxes were found, in which the holy relics lay. At that time, then, the empress offered prayers of thanksgiving to God, having been deemed worthy of so great an apparition and having succeeded in the discovery of the holy relics; and after this, honoring the martyrs with a most costly tomb, she deposited them beside the divine Thyrsus, after a public festival, as was fitting, and the appropriate procession with .2.18 psalms had been celebrated, at which I also

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ἀδελφὴ Πουλχερία ἡ βασιλίς. ἐπιφανεὶς γὰρ αὐτῇ τρίτον ὁ θεσπέσιος Θύρσος τοὺς ὑπὸ γῆν κρυπτομένους ἐμήνυσεν καὶ μετατίθεσθαι πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ἐκέλευσεν, ὥστε τῆς ὁμοίας θέσεως καὶ τιμῆς μετέχειν. ἅμα δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ οἱ τεσσαράκοντα χλανίδας ἠμφιεσμένοι λαμπρὰς καταδήλους αὐτῇ σφᾶς ἐποίησαν. ἐδόκει δὲ πίστεως κρεῖττον εἶναι τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ παν.2.8 τελῶς ἄπορον. οὔτε γὰρ οἱ παλαιότεροι τῶν ἐνθάδε κληρικῶν πολλάκις ἐρωτηθέντες οὔτε ἄλλος οὐδεὶς καταμηνύειν εἶχε τοὺς μάρτυρας. τὸ δὴ τελευταῖον πάντων ἀμηχανούντων Πολυχρονίῳ τινὶ πρεσβυτέρῳ, πάλαι γενομένῳ τῶν Καισαρίου οἰκείων, ἄγει τὸ θεῖον εἰς νοῦν τούς ποτε τὸν τόπον .2. οἰκήσαντας μοναχούς. καὶ παρὰ τοὺς Μακεδονιανῶν κληρικοὺς ἐλθὼν ἐπυνθάνετο περὶ αὐτῶν. ἤδη δὲ πάντων τετελευτηκότων ἕνα μόνον περιόντα εὑρών, ὡς ἐπὶ μηνύσει τῶν ἐπιζητουμένων μαρτύρων ἔτι πεφυλαγμένον ἐν ζῶσιν, ἐδεῖτο φράζειν, εἴ γε ἱερὰ λείψανα οἶδεν ὑπὸ τὸν δηλωθέντα χῶρον .2.10 κρυπτόμενα. ἐπεὶ δὲ διὰ τὰς πρὸς Εὐσεβίαν συνθήκας ἰδὼν αὐτὸν Πολυχρόνιος ὑποπαραιτούμενον καὶ τὴν θείαν ἐπιφάνειαν ἐδήλωσε καὶ τῆς βασιλίδος τὰς ὀχλήσεις καὶ αὐτῶν τὴν ἀμηχανίαν, συνωμολόγησεν ἀληθῆ τὸν θεὸν ἐπιδεῖξαι τῇ κρατούσῃ· βούπαιδα γὰρ τότε ὄντα καὶ ὑπὸ γέροντας ἡγουμένους τὴν μοναχικὴν ἐκδιδασκόμενον ἀκριβῶς ἐπίστασθαι μάρτυρας κεῖσθαι παρὰ τὴν τῆς Εὐσεβίας σορόν· μὴ εἰδέναι μέντοι, πότερον ὑπὸ τέμενος ἢ ἑτέρωθι κατορωρυγμένοι εἰσί, τῷ πολὺν παρελθεῖν χρόνον καὶ τὴν .2.11 προτέραν ὄψιν τοῦ τόπου εἰς τὸ νῦν φαινόμενον ἀμειφθῆναι. «καὶ μήν», ἔφη Πολυχρόνιος, «οὐ τὸ αὐτὸ πέπονθα· μέμνημαι γὰρ παρατυχὼν τῇ ταφῇ τῆς Καισαρίου γαμετῆς, καὶ ἀναλογιζόμενος ἐκ τῆς πέλας παρακειμένης λεωφόρου εἰκάζω αὐτὴν κεῖσθαι παρὰ τὸν ἄμβωνα» (βῆμα δὲ τοῦτο τῶν ἀναγνωστῶν). «οὐκοῦν», ὑπολαβὼν ὁ μοναχὸς εἶπε, «καὶ τὴν Εὐσεβίας σορὸν παρὰ τὴν Καισαρίου γαμετὴν ζητητέον, καθότι καὶ περιοῦσαι τὰ πολλὰ .2.12 συνῆσαν ἀλλήλαις καὶ θανοῦσαι συνέθεντο ἅμα τὰς θήκας ἔχειν.» ἐπεὶ δὲ κατὰ τὰ εἰρημένα ὀρύσσειν ἔδει καὶ τὰ ἱερὰ λείψανα ἀνιχνεύειν, μαθοῦσα .2.13 ταῦτα ἡ βασιλὶς προσέταξεν ἔχεσθαι τοῦ ἔργου. ἀνορυγέντος τε τοῦ περὶ τὸν ἄμβωνα χώρου ηὑρέθη ἡ τῆς Καισαρίου γαμετῆς θήκη, καθὼς συνέβαλε Πολυχρόνιος, ὀλίγον δὲ διεστὼς ἐκ πλαγίου κατάστρωμα πλίνθων ὀπτῶν, ἰσόμετρός τε τῇ τούτων περιβολῇ πλὰξ μαρμαρίνη· ὑφ' ἣν αὐτῆς Εὐσεβίας ἡ σορὸς ἀπεδείχθη καὶ τὸ περὶ αὐτὴν εὐκτήριον ἐπιεικῶς μάλα λευκοπορφύροις μαρμάροις ἠμφιεσμένον· τὸ δὲ ἐπίθεμα τῆς θήκης ὥσπερ εἰς ἱερὰν ἐξήσκητο τράπεζαν. ἐπ' ἄκρου δέ, καθ' ὃ οἱ μάρτυρες ἔκειντο, τρύπημα .2.14 μικρὸν ἀνεφάνη. παρεστὼς δέ τις τοῦ βασιλέως οἴκου ῥάβδον λεπτὴν ἣν ἔτυχε κατέχων διὰ τοῦ τρυπήματος καθῆκε· καὶ ἀνιμήσας τῇ ῥινὶ προσήγαγε, καὶ μύρων εὐωδίας ὠσφράνθη. ἐκ τούτου δὲ ἀγαθαὶ ἐλπίδες τοῖς ἐργαζομένοις καὶ τοῖς ἐφεστῶσιν ἐγένοντο, καὶ σπουδῇ τὴν σορὸν ἀποκα.2.15 λύψαντες εὑρίσκουσι τὴν Εὐσεβίαν. τὸ δὲ πρὸς κεφαλὴν αὐτῆς ἐξέχον τῆς θήκης, εἰς κιβωτοῦ σχῆμα περιεξεσμένον, ἰδίῳ ἔνδοθεν ἐκαλύπτετο ἐπιθέματι· καὶ ἑκατέρωθεν αὐτῷ πρὸς τὰ χείλη σίδηρος ἐπικείμενος συνεῖχε μολύβδῳ συμπεπηγώς. ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ μέσου τὸ αὐτὸ τρύπημα πάλιν ἀναφανὲν .2.16 ἔτι σαφέστερον ἐδείκνυ ἔνδοθεν ἔχειν τοὺς μάρτυρας. ὡς δὲ ταῦτα ἠγγέλθη, συνέδραμον εἰς τὸ μαρτύριον ἥ τε βασιλὶς καὶ ὁ ἐπίσκοπος· αὐτίκα τε διὰ τῶν ἐπιστημόνων περιαιρεθέντων τῶν σιδηρίων δεσμῶν εὐπετῶς ἐξειλκύσθη τὸ ἐπίθεμα· ὑπὸ δὲ τοῦτο μύρα πολλὰ καὶ ἐν τοῖς μύροις ἀλαβαστρο.2.17 θῆκαι ἀργυραῖ δύο ηὑρέθησαν, ἐν αἷς τὰ ἱερὰ λείψανα ἔκειτο. τότε μὲν οὖν ἡ βασιλὶς εὐχαριστήρια ηὔξατο τῷ θεῷ, τοσαύτης ἐπιφανείας ἀξιωθεῖσα καὶ τῆς εὑρέσεως ἐπιτυχοῦσα τῶν ἱερῶν λειψάνων· μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα πολυτελεστάτῃ θήκῃ τιμῶσα τοὺς μάρτυρας παρὰ τὸν θεσπέσιον Θύρσον κατέθετο, δημοτελοῦς ἑορτῆς ὡς εἰκὸς καὶ τῆς προσηκούσης πομπῆς σὺν .2.18 ψαλμῳδίαις ἐπιτελεσθείσης, ᾗ καὶ ἐγὼ