The Silent Oracle and the Martyr Babylas

Julian ordered the pagan temples at Antioch to be opened, and he was very eager to obtain an oracle from Apollo of Daphne. But the demon that lived in the temple kept silent out of fear of his neighbor, Babylas the martyr, for the coffin holding the body of that saint was close by. When the emperor was told of this, he ordered the coffin to be removed at once. So the Christians of Antioch, women and children included, carried the coffin from Daphne to the city with solemn rejoicing and the chanting of psalms. The psalms they sang were the kind that heap reproach on the gods of the pagans and on those who put their trust in them and in their images. [a]