The resurgense of the pestilence in 496-7
XXVIII. The year 808 (A.D. 496-7). This sign [the plague of 494] from above was not sufficient for us to restrain us from our sins; on the contrary, we became more audacious, and gave ourselves up easily to sins [...] The plague of boils became more prevalent among the people, and the eyes of many were destroyed both in the city and the (surrounding) villages. Mar Cyrus the bishop displayed a seemly zeal, and exhorted the citizens to make a small litter of silver in honour of the eucharistic vessels, that they might be placed in it when they were going to minister with them at the commemoration of one of the martyrs.
W. Wright (transl. and notes), The Chronicle of Joshua the Stylite, composed in Syriac, A.D. 507 (Cambridge 1882), p. 19.