The state of Christendom was at thattime on every side miserably distracted, and stood in need of a past See Lesley, Descript. God called him out of those evils to his kingdom on the 11th of March,639, or, as Papebroke thinks,[4] in 644. BARSANUPHIUS, ANCHORET.
He observed to the last an untainted chastity, notwithstanding theadvice of physicians who excited him to marry, imagining, upon somefalse principle, this to be a means necessary to preserve his life. [5]His {328} fourth letter was written to the Christians of Rome. Upon the news of this massacre St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Sirmium, Martyr.
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