السيرة
The sufferings that Eutropius endured unto death did not come from pagans, but were rather the fruit of the mingling of politics with religion. For Saint John Chrysostom had been unjustly exiled on account of the Empress Eudoxia, leaving the Church of Constantinople for the mountains of the Caucasus in Armenia, deprived of his flock, enduring every trouble with a joyful heart and an exultant soul.
The atmosphere of Constantinople grew inflamed at the saint's exile, and suddenly a fire broke out in the cathedral of Constantinople. It was said that a fire issued from beneath the altar, proclaiming the wrath of God at what had been done to the wronged patriarch. Some said that the adversaries of Saint Chrysostom had done this in order to kill his followers who were in the cathedral, while the saint's adversaries accused his followers of having done it to provoke the authorities.
The authorities heeded them and summoned the reader Eutropius, pressing him hard to confess the names of those who had set the fires. But though he did not name a single one, despite the severity of the tortures to which he was subjected - for they scourged him violently, raked his sides and face with iron combs, and placed torches beside the tender members of his body - at last they cast him into a pit, where his soul departed a little while later as he lay in the pit