nsentto his being ordained, but on the condition that he should stillcontinue at the helm of the state. Their conversion he would have them begin by correctingthe habit of swearing, which had taken deep root among many of them. The two legates from the pope are named first in theActs, St. Finding here a heathen temple, he dedicated it tothe true God, and made it his house of prayer.
3, Exercit. He soon filled that desert with anchorets, and built init a monastery of regular canons. The miraculouspreservation of the life of a pagan woman in labor, who had beendespaired of, occasioned the conversion of that family and others, tothe number of sixty-four. AFTER many torments, she was beheaded at Nicomedia, under GaleriusMaximianus.
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