And King Constantine, the son of Constantine, died after reigning for twenty-four years. He was followed by Julianus—the pagan king—who ruled the Byzantines for several years. Determined to restore the worship of idols, he put to death a great many martyrs.
In the first year of his reign the Arians in Jerusalem rose up against their Melkite bishop—the one who had written about the appearance of the Cross—with the intention of killing him. He fled, and they installed an Arian bishop in his place.
He said: In the second year of Julianus’s rule, he appointed over Antioch a patriarch steadfast in the Orthodox Creed, and that patriarch served for twenty-five years. In the twenty-first year of his leadership the second council was held in Constantinople.
He also said: In his time all the inhabitants of the city of Niryār were Sabians, so he composed