 After assisting Helena with the finding of the True Cross, Judas Cyriacus was baptized, consecrated as bishop of Jerusalem, and martyred during the persecutions of Julian the Apostate, which would place his death in the 4th century.Another saint, named Saint Cyriacus, died during this century, and there may have been confusion between the two saints.In the legendary "Acts" of his martyrdom, at first written in Greek and than translated in Latin and Syriac, he engages in a dialogue with the emperor Julian, and is described as suffering horrible torments, along with his mother Anna.