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Artemius the warrior, who achieved distinction under the emperors Constantine and Constantius, was a prefect in Egypt during the reign of Julian the apostate. When Julian, going to war against the Persians, was in Antioch, Artemius, arriving there with the Egyptian army, witnessed the outrageous persecution of Christians by Julian, who attributed to them the burning of a pagan temple in Daphne, a suburb of Antioch, while he enthusiastically sought to restore increasingly declining paganism and supported pagan temples. In anger at the innocent Christians, the apostate burned their church in Antioch and destroyed another one, located near the church of Apollo, and in general cruelly persecuted the Christians who firmly opposed him, not even sparing children. Then the zealous Christian Artemy was indignant at the persecutor and fearlessly openly denounced him for injustice. Annoyed by Artemy's insolence, the ruler ordered to remove his military clothes, expose him and torture him until he made sacrifices to the gods. But, pouring his blood on the earth, Artemy preached Christ and His great miracles. Having endured further imprisonment, where he was tormented by hunger, Artemy was subjected to a special test: he was laid on one half of a cut stone, with the other half of which, lowered from a height, the members of the martyr were crushed. Artemy, who remained alive after that, by order of Julian, had his head cut off with a sword. It was October 363. The relics of Artemy, requested from Julian by Arista, deaconess of Antioch, were sent to Constantinople immediately after his death, but where they were originally placed is unknown. Subsequently, they were transferred to the Church of John the Baptist, built by Emperor Anastasius (491–518), which became known as the Church of Artemy 269. With the relics of St. great martyr Artemy, glorified by many miracles, once suffered a wonderful punishment of one person who blasphemously treated a shrine glorified by God... When one day one pious man, in the simplicity of his soul believing in the power of God, glorifying God's saints, took oil and candles and, with the hope of healing his illness, went to pray to the relics of St. great martyr Artemy, then an acquaintance who met him recognized him; where and why he was going, he said to him mockingly: “bring your illness here when you go back... The one who was going to do a pious deed did not object to this mockery and, having prayed at the relics, went home. On the way, when he passed by his friend’s house, he suddenly felt so unwell that he could not go further and went into his friend’s house, where his illness intensified to a severe attack. People gathered; meanwhile, having come to his senses, he told everyone about the blasphemy of his friend and now after that he felt completely healthy. But at the same time, a terrible illness, in the presence of everyone, befell the mocker, and, suffering unbearably, he constantly shouted: woe is me! Woe is me! - Everyone recognized this as God’s judgment on the mocker and marveled at the ways of the Rewarder... “Poly, month. East." archim. Sergius, vol. II, part 2, p. 335.