Commenting on this, the book Ekklisiastiki Istoria (Ecclesiastical History) states: “For those being converted from paganism to Christianity, it was easy to recognize their abandoned heroes in the person of the martyrs and to start rendering them the honor they previously gave to the former ones....
Seda kommenteerides ütleb raamat „Kiriku ajalugu ” („ Ekklisiastiki Istoria ”): „Need, kes paganlusest kristlusse pöördusid, võisid oma hüljatud kangelased vaevata ära tunda märtrikujudes ja hakata neid austama samal kombel nagu oma endisi kangelasi.