The life of the Martyrs at the Gate of Eugenius
The sources that record this discovery do not preserve the name of the bishop who received them; he had the relics brought out for the veneration of the crowds who gathered from across the city, and healings began at once at the place where they were displayed. It was only later, through what the Church remembers as a revelation given to a clergyman named Nicholas the Calligrapher, that among the anonymous remains were recognized the relics of the apostle Andronicus of the Seventy and his companion, called Junia in some sources and Julia in others, the same figure greeted by name in Paul's letter to the Romans and already venerated on her own day in May. Word of the discovery and the healings that followed spread widely enough that centuries later, in the twelfth century, the emperor Andronicus Komnenos, who bore the apostle's own name, built a great domed church over the site where the relics had first come to light. The martyrs found there beside the apostle remain unnamed to this day, remembered still as belonging, in the Church's own phrase, to the Book of Life rather than to any human record.

