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In the persecution ofDecius, in 250, on the 23d of February, he was apprehended with Sabinaand Asclepiades, while they were celebrating the anniversary festival ofSt. - You did not ask me his name, but what he is. He explains it mystically. Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium, Martyr.

The saint obtained their pardon, and, overcome by hislenity and formed by his holy instructions, they both became veryvirtuous converts. Bernard says:[2] This holy procession was firstmade by the virgin mother, St. They contain a refutation of the blasphemous homiliesof that heresiarch, who yet is never {281} named in them; by whichcircumstance they seem to have been written before his condemnation. Thirdly, we must live as much as may bein a habit of recollection, and the practice of the divine presence,and, after any dissipating affairs, return eagerly to close retirementfor some short time.