The Lives of the Saints, Volume 1 (of 16)

Aurelian was a special votary of the sun.

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There is some blunder here.

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S. Hieron, Ep. 6.

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S. August. Serm. 274.

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Here a difficulty occurs. There is no such name in the lists of the prefects of the city. According to this account, he transferred to the deputy, Aspasius, the duty of sentencing her. In some accounts he is called Aspasius Paternus. A Paternus was prefect of the city in 264 and 265; an Ovinius Paternus in 281. Aspasius Paternus, pro-consul of Africa, in or about 260, is mentioned by S. Cyprian. It is probable that Symphronius was not prefect of the city, but a powerful senator, and that Aspasius is the same as Ovinius Paternus. Transcribers made havoc of the names in the Acts.

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Antiphon to Ps. cix. Dixit Dominus, for S. Agnes' Day, and Greek Menæa.

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This is appointed as the antiphon to the Magnificat for S. Agnes' Day.

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Prudentius.

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Ibid.

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S. Ambrose lib. I. De Virgin. c. 2.

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From the mines in the Cassiterides, Devon and Cornwall.

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We see here an instance of the manner in which some stories of miracles were formed. Leontius, who heard the story from the clergy acquainted with all the circumstances, says that the bearer of the pots told the Patriarch that they contained money; but that, for greater security, they were labelled honey. But Metaphrastes, in telling the story, says that, miraculously, the honey was converted into gold.

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2 Tim. iii. 14.

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1 Thess. iii. 2; 1 Cor. iv. 17.

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Acts xviii.

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Rev. ii. 1, 7.

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Hist. Eccl. v. c. 19: also Socrates, Eccl. Hist. iii. 19.

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The Gododdin, a poem descriptive of the massacre of the British chiefs at Stonehenge by Hengest, was composed by Aneurin whilst in prison.

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The ancient name of Weedon having been Benavenna, this has helped to cause the confusion which arose between S. Cadoc and S. Sophias of Benevento in Italy.

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Rev. ii. 9.

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Bath-hildr in Norse, meaning the maiden (hildr) of the Bath-stofa, the female apartment in a Norse, Saxon or Frankish house. She is sometimes called Bathildes, sometimes Baltidis.

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See concerning the fire and subsequent persecution in the account of SS. Eutropius and Tygris, Jan. 12th;

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This life is, for the most part, taken from the Rev. Canon Bright's "Hist. of the Church from a. d. 313 to a. d. 451." London, 1863.

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"That Cyril had any share in this atrocity," says Canon Robertson, i. 401, "appears to be an unsupported calumny."

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Decline and Fall, Ed. Bohn, i. p. 348.

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