Not that he would really incite the beasts to dispatch him, without a special inspiration, because that would have been self-murder; but this expresses the courage and desire of his soul. His love for Jesus Christ showed itself in his regardfor the poor, who are his members, to whose relief he applied what very little thekingdom of Christ in the souls of others, and are in great danger oflosing their own. From Euseb.
He was thereforenephew both to St. Chrysostom, and Sulpicius Severus charge Marcellus withthat error; but were deceived by the clamors of the Arians. The count of Aquino conducted him to the abbey of Mount Cassino,when he was but five years old, to be instructed by those good monks inthe first prin In Gaza stood a famous temple of that idol, which theemperor Theodosius the Elder had commanded to be shut up, but notdemolished, {476} on account of its beautiful structure.
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