A
various reading is “martyr.” In Letter
cxcvii. to S. Ambrose, S. Basil, states that the same honour was
paid to S. Dionysius of Milan in his place of sepulture as to a
martyr. So Gregory Thaumaturgus was honoured at
Neocæsarea, and Athanasius and Basil received like distinction
soon after their death.