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dered lighter by the care with which several judicious and learnedmen have compiled the lives of many particular saints. during those three days, and from themanner in which he ever after remembered and spoke of his having been ablasphemer and a persecutor. Germanus and Lupus deferred None beyond the hour, that they might recite it in the church, rather than on the road. After two years thus employed, hefell sick of a fever, with a pain in his side: he received thesacraments of the church, lying on sackcloth before the altar of St.

Then theyunanimously demanded that he should be burnt alive. THE reputation of Epiphanius for sanctity and miracles, gave him thehighest credit with all the last weak Roman emperors, and with the kingsOdoacer and Theodoric, though all of opposite interests. with whom he then lived, wasobliged to give general orders that none of them should be admitted tohim. In this disposition, the holy doctors of the Church discovered in the divine oracles that spirit of perfect virtue, which they imbibed and improved from their assiduous meditation.