Emperor Julian the Apostate in 363. He noted especially that the punishment of being paraded around in women's clothes reflected the treatment of Christian soldiers by Julian. References Bibliography Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. . E. Key Fowden, The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius between Rome and Iran, The Transformation of the Classical Heritage 28 (Berkeley, 1999). D. Woods, 'The Emperor Julian and the Passion of Sergius and Bacchus', Journal of Early Christian Studies 5 (1997), 335–67. Boswell, John. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe New York: Villard Books, 1994. . External links David Woods: The Origin of the Cult of SS. Sergius and Bacchus The Lives of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus from the official Website of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) Photographs of the Church of St. Sergius and St. Bacchus, Istanbul The Passion of SS. Serge and Bacchus 3rd-century births 303 deaths 4th-century Romans 4th-century Christian martyrs Saints duos Groups of Roman Catholic saints Syrian Christian saints Military saints