Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek Mensea and Menology of the Emperor Basil. Roman Martyrology. A church was dedicated in his honour at Constantinople by Constantine the Great within thirty-five years of his death, consequently S. Diomede must have been venerated shortly after his death. Authorities: — Several Greek Lives or Acts, not original, but all agreeing in the main facts, which are apparently perfectly trustworthy.] IOMEDE, a physician, a native of Tarsus in Cilicia, lived and practised in Nicaea. As he was a Christian, he was accused to Diocletian, who ordered him to be brought in chains to Nicomedia. His hands and feet were accordingly fettered, and he was placed in a chariot. On the way, feeling faint and ill, he begged his guards to allow him to get out of the carriage, and rest on the grass. With prompt kindness they assisted him to the ground, when he had just strength to kneel down, and in the act he died, probably of heart complaint. The soldiers cut off the head and took it to Nicomedia, to show to Diocletian that they had not allowed Diomede to escape. The compilers of the Menaea and Menology, not satisfied with this simple story, added to its unvarnished natural truthfulness an absurd miracle. The soldiers who cut off the head were blinded. In darkness they found their way to the emperor. “We cut off his head,” said the soldiers. “ Put it on again,” said the emperor. So they groped their way back to the corpse, and when they had readjusted the head to the shoulders, their eyes opened again.