the komnenian rulers of the empire of trebizond adopted the saint as the patron of their country. his alleged miracles include assisting trebizond to repel a siege of the city by the seljuk turks in 1224. his image appears frequently on trapezuntine coins. the cult and pilgrimage around this saint never really developed beyond trebizond's borders, although john lazaropoulos, metropolitan of trebizond in the name joseph, collected the miracles of st. eugenios into one book in the 14th century.