71. She was admonished, by repeated dreams, of the place
where the relics of the forty martyrs had been buried. The
ground had successively belonged to the house and garden of
a woman of Constantinople, to a monastery of Macedonian
monks, and to a church of St. Thrysus, erected by Caesarius,
who was consul A.D. 397; and the memory of the relics was
almost obliterated. Notwithstanding the charitable wishes of
Dr. Jortin (Remarks, tom. iv. p. 234), it is not easy to
acquit Pulcheria of some share in the pious fraud, which
must have been transacted when she was more than
five-and-thirty years of age.