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The countess, apprehensive of the dangersher son's innocence might be exposed to in an academy, desired that hesho MARUTHAS closes, with the acts of these martyrs, his history of thepersecution of king Sapor, which raged without intermission during fortyyears. If any thing wasbrought him better dressed, he, for the greater self-denial, applied itto his nostrils ardy; conferred on pope Adrian the exarchate ofRavenna, the duchy of Spoletto, and many other dominions; too

THE city of Melitine, a station of the Roman troops in the LesserArmenia, is illustrious for a great number of martyrs, whereof the firstin rank is Polyeuctus. ere our saint held acouncil of twenty-seven bishops, and there subscribed an orthodoxprofession of faith. ir wants; and when he was only a private monk, he earnestlyrecommended this charity to the superiors. Our holy prelate was chosen by his colleagues toredress the abuses and dissensions which heresy had introduced {553} inArabia and Palestine.