History of the Armenians, Volumes 2-3

[They were] of the divine laws, like Elijah and John. Of these, one was a fugitive for forty days from the woman Jezebel of Ahab, and the other was beheaded by the daughter of Herodias.

In the morning, the ministers understood. With many laments, they carried the relics of the saint to the holy monastery on the mountain called Zion, which was shining at that time with ascetic men, more than Sinai and Scythia original: "Սկիւթիա" in Egypt. Hearing this, the masters of the village of Arkaz came out to meet them. They persuaded the attendants to lay him to rest in the chamber which had been built in the name of the Saint Christopher, the invincible commander. They carried him there and laid him to rest in the chamber. And the blessed ascetic of God, Noah, who had lived for many years on the holy mountain of Zion and had become angelic in all his conduct, saw in a vision that morning the heavens opened and hosts of angels going out, group by group, to meet Saint Stephanos. Embracing his pure and blood-stained spirit, they shouted with a loud voice:

"Good and faithful servant, come, enter into the joy of your Lord."
And thus, with great praises, they carried and brought him before the awesome throne of the Divinity, upon which Christ, the Son of God, sat in a bodily vision. Then, having bowed before the Saint, [and] with the white shroud he had, having wrapped his bosom full of blood, which he offered before the Lord, he said:
"Yours is the vengeance and the righteous judgment."
And thus, having kissed the apostles and the patriarchs, they carried and laid him to rest in their quarters, until the day of retribution.

1. It should have been written and read as "Scythia."
2. The village is still known today by the names Arkaz or Ergez, and it has a Holy Cross church.