all contemporary sources are unequivocal in praising bacurius's military skills and courage. rufinus, whom bacurius visited several times on the mount of olives and served him as a source of christianization of iberia, describes the general as a pious christian, while the rhetorician libanius, with whom bacurius held correspondence, evidently regards him as a pagan and praises him both as a soldier and a man of culture. the oldest georgian "bir el qutt inscriptions" mention bacurius.