Saint Babylas (d. c. 250)

[or Babyllus, Babila].  Martyred bishop of Antioch, who suffered death A.D. 250; remembered in history for the discipline of the Emperor Philip for complicity in the death of Emperor Gordianus, compelling him to do penance publicly. His body, buried first at Antioch, was transferred to Daphne in 351; removed to Antioch by the Emperor Julian in 362. St. Babylas’s Day in the Greek Church is September 4th; in the Catholic Church, January 24th. See also Lives of the Saints.