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212,)and that this had been always the tradition and practice; Longum estnuns ab ascensu Domini usque ad praes Prudemius says, that the persecutors burned the acts of theirmartyrdom, envying us the history of so glorious a triumph. [24] He repeated the same orders for the Jews of Sardinia, andfor those of Sicily. 4, deEutychiana Haer.

ed, he was unanimouslychosen abbot of Mount Sinai, and superior-general of all the monks andhermits in that country. most Christiansconceive, for it requires no less than a total disengagement of theaffections from earthly things. The world knows, from toofrequent experience, how strongly the promise and expectation of newdignities raise the spirits, and alter the words, the looks, and thewhole carriage of proud men. The next day the saint sentthe barbarian a letter by a holy priest whom he had brought up from hisin