ENEA. — A paralytic miraculously healed by Peter at Lydda, according to Acts 9:33 ff. The name (Alvèoc), which is also found in Flavius Josephus (Antiq. Iud., XIV, 10, 22), borne by a Jew, indicates that our personage was a Hellenist.
That he was already a Christian is highly probable: he is found among the faithful at Lydda; there is no mention of his conversion as a consequence of the grace he received, whereas the conversion of “those who saw” is mentioned (v. 35); Peter addresses him as someone familiar with the person and power of Jesus Christ (v. 34).
BIBL.: E. Levesque, Eude, in DB, II, col. 1784; E. Jacquier, Les Actes des Apôtres, Paris 1926, p. 305 ff.
Teodorico da Castel San Pietro