Baring-Gould’s sources: Greek and Russian Maeneas. Authorities Mention by Evagrius, Theophylact, Nicephorus Callistus, and the untrustworthy account of her in Metaphrastes. A Life was written by Stephen, bishop of Hieropolis, who flourished at the same time as the Saint. This account Theophylact probably employed.] Theophylact says that there was a young maiden named Cholinduc, or Colanduch, at Babylon, daughter of a Persian magus, who was married to a man of good estate, at Hierapolis. One day, while sitting with him at supper, she fell into a cataleptic fit, and on coming to herself, said she had seen the heaven and the hell of the Christians. Her husband angrily beat her, thinking she must be out of her mind. She, however, maintained that she had seen these two places, and that Christian teaching must be true. After having suffered much annoyance from her husband and others, an angel in dream revealed to her that he would soon die. This accordingly took place, and Cholinduc escaped to Nisibis, where she placed herself under instruction, and was baptised. This incensed the magi, and she was thrown into a dark dungeon; thence she escaped, and went to Jerusalem, where she venerated the holy places, and then returned to Hieropolis, where she lived S. Mildred.

…afterwards, esteemed and venerated by the Christians. Evagrius says, in speaking of the reign of Chosroes, that “At that time, there was living in our country Golanduch, a female martyr, who maintained her testimony through a series of dreadful sufferings when tortured by the Persian magi, and was a worker of extraordinary miracles. Her life was written by Stephen, bishop of Hierapolis.” 1 All this is true, and may be relied upon; let us next see how the story has been altered by Metaphrastes and in the Menaea. According to the fable that passes for history in these collections, Cholunduc was cast by Chosroes into an awful pit, in which lived a dragon, and resided there for “ many years,” till the dragon became perfectly tame. She was then drawn out, and given to a youth to execute. He smote at her neck, and cut it so that the blood flowed down her breast to her feet; but she was not killed by the blow.