 The remains of Babylas were reinterred in a church dedicated to him on the other side of the River Orontes.Near the close of his discourse John Chrysostom refers to the erection of the church dedicated to Babylas, and to the zeal of the Bishop Meletius in promoting it, who actually took part in the work with his own hands.This was the first recorded "translation" of the buried remains of a saint, something that was to become routine in the Middle Ages.