The Gazaeans,however, performed their part in endeavoring to comfort him, and, havingassisted at the Sunday office, and stayed one da This spirit of all virtues he cultivated in his soul by their continual exercise. The first part ofthese acts, which reaches to the eve of her martyrdom, was written bySt. His unspotted purity ofheart, his ardent zeal, and the practice of all Christian virtues,prepared him, from his {435} youth, for the episcopal dignity, and thecrown of martyrdom.
He went through these more sublime studies with extraordinarysuccess, and proceeded doctor of divinity with uncommon applause, thoughhis modesty gave him a reluctancy in that honor. John the Baptist. Afterwards the two monasteries ofUrsiein, commonly called St. In the sixth book he reports the shameful vices ofSocrates, Plato, and their other heroes of paganism, in opposition tothe true virtues of the prophets and saints.
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