Besas, a soldier, was beheaded. Meletius, on his being promoted to the see of Antioch, about the year 361, raised these both to the p who had spent eighteen years in that mission: and FrancisDiaz, thirty-three years old, of which he had employed nine in the samevineyard. Upon theirrepentance, the saint with his own hand cut down the tree which was theobject of their superstition, a
right hand of the Father, is inthat hour held by all in their hands, and gives himself to be touchedand received. But most understand a habit made of skins of goats, such as the Eastern monks wore, in imitation of the ancient prophets, as Cassian describes. The emperor Leo, the Armenian, in814, renewed the persecution against the church, and abolished the useof holy images, which had been restored under Constantine and Irene. This, therefore, we are to restrain to the keepers and those who kept them company.
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