History of Armenia, by Father Michael Chamich; from B. C. 2247 to ...

112 HISTORY OF ARMENIA.
the bones of the apostle Thomas, who suffered
in India, were brought into Armenia, and placed
in the village of Kholz in the province of
Alznies. Eustathius, one of the seventy whom
our Lord sent into various parts of the world to
spread the faith, coming into Armenia, was put
to death in Seunic, and his remains were interred
in the place now called by his name,
Setathev, or Tathev. Elisha, a disciple of
Thaddeus or of Jude, accompanied by three
others, came into Upper Armenia, where, by
his preaching, almost all the inhabitants became
Christians. He suffered martyrdom on
the plain of Arghun. About this time Nero
succeeded to the imperial purple at Rome, and
Sanatruk sent an embassy to him with rich
presents, to confirm the ancient treaty between
the Armenians and Romans. Nero received
the ambassadors courteously, and invited them
to his palace. On their going thither they
were met by Agrippina the emperor's mother,
who, with Seneca, his ancient tutor, advised
him to dismiss them without any further notice
than that which he had previously taken of
them.
A.D. 55 After Sanatruk had taken upon himself the
government of Lower Armenia, the capital Nisibis
sustained a violent shock of an earthquake,
by which it was severely injured. Sanatruk
therefore entirely demolished and rebuilt it on a