Epp. c.,
cclii. Soz. v. 11. cf. also Epp. xxxix., xl.,
and xli., with the notes on pp. 141, 142, for the argument for and
against the genuineness of the correspondence. Two Eupsychii of
Cæsarea are named in the Acta Sanctorum and by the
Petits Bollandistes,—one celebrated on April 9, said to
have been martyred in the reign of Hadrian, the other the victim of
Julian in 362, commemorated on Sept. 7. Tillemont identifies
them. Baronius thinks them distinct. J. S. Stilting
(Act. Sanct. ed. 1868) is inclined to distinguish them mainly on
the ground that between 362 and the time of Basil’s describing
the festival as an established yearly commemoration there is not
sufficient interval for the cultus to have arisen. This alone
seems hardly convincing. The local interest in the victim of
Julian’s severity would naturally be great. Becket was
murdered in 1170 and canonized in 1173, Dec. 29 being fixed for his
feast; Lewis VII. of France was among the pilgrims in 1179.
Bernadette Soubirous announced her vision at Lourdes in 1858; the
church was begun there in 1862.