Hippolyte Delehaye,
1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 24…
(1911)
“ The cult of the saint spread rapidly. In 353 we find a church of St Sergius at Eitha, in Batanaea (Waddington, Inscriptions de Syrie, n. 2124) —the most ancient example of a dedication of this kind. In the 6th century St Sergius was honoured in the West (Gregory of Tours, De gloria martyrum, 96) . According to their Acta (which, however, have little authority) , SS. Sergius and Bacchus were soldiers. In art they are most generally represented in military costume. ”
