John Chrysostom's homily upon Saint Babylas & a Acts of the Martyrs report a charted story, that Babylas when refused a camping emperor, in account of his sins, permission to enter a church & experienced ordered him to require his place among the penitents. John doesn't give a title of a emperor; the Acts mention Numerian. These are further belike a contemporary Philip the Arab of whom Eusebius (Historia ecclesiastica, VI, 34) reports that a bishop would non let him enter a gathering of Christians at a Easter vigil. Late legend elaborates on this, stating that Babylas demanded that he run penance for his a portion in the slaying of the immature Gordian III before he would allow Philip to celebrate Easter.

Around 351 the Caesar Gallus built a fresh church around honor of Babylas at Daphne, a suburban area of Antioch, & got a remains of the bishop transferred thereto. A intention of Gallus around translating a remains of Babylas to Daphne was to neutralize a heathenish results of the temple of Apollo located there -- or, when Chrysostom expresses it, to "bring a physician to the sick."

Based on data from Chrysostom, after Julian a Apostate consulted the oracle of Apollo at the temple within Daphne (362), he received no guide, & was told that it was because of the proximity of the saint. He so, experienced a sarcophagus of the martyr exhumed & taken back to his original place of burial. Two or three years late, in October 22, a mysterious fire broke call at a temple of Apollo, ingesting a roof of the building, & the statue of the god, traced from either Phidias' statue of Zeus at Olympia. Julian, suspecting angry Christians were responsible, ordered a Cathedral of Antioch closed, & an investigation into a drive of the fire: Ammianus Marcellinus reports "a frivolous rumor" placed a blame to occasionally candles lit by a worshipper late the last nighttime (Twenty-two, Long dozen). John Chrysostom claimed a bolt of lightning placed the temple afire. the remains of Babylas were reinterred inside a church dedicated to him on the other side of the Flow of any stream Orontes. Touching a close of his discourse John Chrysostom refers to the erection of the church dedicated to Babylas, & to the zeal of the Bishop Meletius in promoting it, who actually participate in the operate using his have paws.

A columns & bulwarks of the ruined temple were however pointed retired twenty years late.

Midmost ages, a remains of Babylas come said to own been moved to Cremona.