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But it seems, from his Confession, that hewas ordained deacon, priest, and bishop, for his mission in his owncountry. A copy of St. The holy abbot bore all private injuries in silence, but oftenpleaded the cause of the poor. fered for its sake, according to that of the Canticles: _If a manshall have given all that he possesses, he will despise it as nothing.

His reign was veryshort, for Artemius, his secretary, {411} who took the name ofAnastasius II. they sacrifice to feed their passions?It was usual for our saint to be absorbed and rapt in heavenly ecstasiesand visions. Gregory of Nyssa, t. 436, and Hom.