Flavian to die a martyr of the mystery of theincarnation of the Son of God. The saint inveighs against several superstitiouspractices of that age, Hom. When the Arian emperor Valens, in 375, commanded the monks to be turnedout of their deserts, and enrolled in the troops, and several Catholicsreviled them as bigots and madmen, St. The master delivered his explanation like an harangue; the scholars retained what they could, and often privately took down short notes to help their memory.
, surnamed the Isaurian, emperor, on the 25th of March, 717,Theodosius and his son embraced an ecclesiastical state, and lived inpeace among the clergy. His cousin Roland, who followed him with the rearof his army, in his return was set upon in the Pyrenean mount He assisted at the council of Constantinople in381, and was always regarded as the centre of the Catholic communion inthe East. Beforeshe left her own country she promised St.
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