Julian, an Old Man, with his Friend Eunus, Led About Seated on Camels, in the Year 253

At this time and place there was also an old man who, because of great pain caused by gout, could not walk, but had to be carried. His name was Julian, and the ancients greeted him as a very venerable man because of his virtue. Under the imperial decree published against the Christians, he was brought by two carriers before the judge, to give an account of his faith.

At once one of those who had carried him, fearing the severe examination, or the rack, fell away from the faith; for that reason we consider his name unworthy of a place here. But the other, called Eunus, remained very steadfast in the faith, together with the old man Julian, who was his dear friend; so both made a grand confession of it, in spite of their many severe torments.

Both were then seated naked on camels and led around the whole city of Alexandria, which is very large; they were scourged with many severe stripes, and finally brought before a great, high, flaming fire, into which both were thrown and burned alive, in the sight of a great crowd of people who stood around. Compare Euseb., book 5, chapter 31, folio 123, column 1, letter B., from the letter of Dionys. to Fabius, bishop of Antioch. Also, A. Mell., folio 67, column 4. Also, Joh. Gys., folio 20, column 1. [n196-1]