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| Of the holy Barses, and of the exile of the bishop of Edessa and his companions.
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Chapter XIV.—Of the holy Barses, and of the exile of the
bishop of Edessa and his companions.
Barses,
whose fame is now great not only in his own city of Edessa, and in
neighbouring towns, but in Phœnicia, in Egypt, and in the Thebaid,
through all which regions he had travelled with a high reputation won
by his great virtue, had been relegated by Valens to the island of
Aradus,717
| 717 An
island off the coast of Phœnicia; now Ruad. The town on the
opposite mainland was Antaradus. | but when the emperor learnt that
innumerable multitudes streamed thither, because Barses was full of
apostolic grace, and drove out sicknesses with a word, he sent him to
Oxyrynchus718
| 718 Oxyrynchus on the Nile, at or near the modern Behnese (?) was so
called because the inhabitants worshipped the
“sharp-snout,” or pike. Strabo xvii. 1. 40. | in Egypt; but there too his fame
drew all men to him, and the old man, worthy of heaven, was led off to
a remote castle near the country of the barbarians of that district, by
name Pheno. It is said that in Aradus his bed has been preserved to
this day, where it is held in very great honour, for many sick persons
lie down upon it and by means of their faith recover.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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