It happened that the son of a heathen priest attached to the Emperor’s Court, having been instructed in his youth by a Deaconess whom he visited with his mother, had secretly become a Christian.  On discovering this, his father had cruelly scourged and burnt him with hot spits on his hands, and feet, and back.  He contrived to escape, and took refuge with his friend the Deaconess.  “‘She dressed me in women’s garments, and took me in her covered carriage to the divine Meletius.  He handed me over to the Bishop of Jerusalem, at that time Cyril, and we started by night for Palestine.’  After the death of Julian, this young man led his father also into the way of truth.  This act he told me with the rest Theodoret, H. E. iii. 10..”