Roman Catholic and Orthodox Saint. St. Eutih or St. Eutychius is remembered for his faithfulness to God and being a martyr. Besides the mummified bodies at St Blaise Church, there are body parts such as the torso of St. Sebastian, the feet and leg of St. Barbara, the tongue of St. Mary of Egypt and the “right index finger of St. Eutih, the Byzantine Patriarch". There is not a saint listed in the Roman Catholic Church named "Eutih," thus making it difficult to decide whose finger is on display. Reasoning that "Eutih" is actually referring to one of the twenty or more St. Eutychius listed in the saint index of the Roman Catholic Church, it is believe by elimination that the saint whose index finger is located at St. Blaise Church lived during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Leo II, from 717 to 741. During this time, Christians were under persecution for their faith, as the emperor adhered to the Iconoclastic heresy. At the same time, the Muslim forces under the leadership of the Khailif Isam were invading into the Byzatine territories of the Mediterranean and persecuting all Christians encountered. The nobleman Eutychius was one of many prisoners captured by the invaders and imprisoned. Thereafter, a series of battlefield losses enraged the Khalif, prompting he to order mass executions of Christian prisoners. In city after city every Christian was slaughtered. Even after the torture of Eutychius, he refused to deny his faith and was murdered for that at Carrhae, Mesopotamia, which is today Harran, Turkey. Those venerating St. Eutychius' relic of a mummified index finger, which is on public display, will receive “healing of every kind” according to the chronicler of St. Eutychius' martyrdom, St. Theophanes, who himself suffered torture, imprisonment, and exile for opposing the Iconoclastic heresy. Since the painter, Gaetano Gresle, brought many relics and artifacts to St. Blasie Church on July 23, 1818 to escape the invading of Napoleon's armies in Venice, it can be reasoned that this index finger might have been brought then too. How the relic got to Venice is unknown.