Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman Martyrology, Coptic Kalendar, Greek Mensea, and Menology of the Emperor Basil. Authority 'ITie entirely genuine and trustworthy Acts written by |ohn, priest of Nico media, and an eye-witness of much which he describes.] The Emperor Licinius, of whom we have spoken in the account of the martyrdom of SS. Hermylus and Stratonicus (Jan. 13th), was married to the sister of the Emperor Constantine. The empress had among her ladies-in-wailing *» very beautiful Christian maiden, named Glaphyra. Licinius, having set his eyes upon her, determined to seduce her, 1 and made to her infamous proposals by the mouth of his chamberlain Benignus. The poor girl, feeling her helplessness surrounded by the creatures of the emperor, told the empress, who at once despatched her in boy's clothes from the palace, and gave her four Christian slaves and money. Glaphyra escaped to Amasea in Pontus, where Basil the bishop took her under his protection. As the bishop was building a church, Glaphyra undertook to write to her mistress for subscriptions. By this means Benignus discovered her retreat, and obtained orders from the emperor to bring both the bishop and the maiden in chains to Nicomedia, where Licinius resided. But before the chamberlain had reached Amasea, God took the poor hunted maiden to His rest, out of reach of her toi mentor, and she is commemorated by the Roman Church on Jan. 13th, and by the Greeks on April 26th, with S. Basil. The bishop was brought to Nicomedia, and was there cruelly scourged, i and his head struck off, for having sheltered a maiden from the lust of an emperor.