It wasjust that the prince of the apostles should take this city under hisparticular care and inspection, which was then th de Excidio Urbis, c. The angels, says St. r having firstinstilled into him steady principles of virtue, a love of prayer, and adread of sin and its occasions.
In one of the two nightswhich he survived, he was favored with a vision, in which one said tohim: Why do you grieve? You have been twice a confessor, and you shallsuffer martyrdom by the sword. The governor sent him to prison, where he remained a longtime, suffering divers torments. His zeal forjustice was most ardent; but nothing seemed ever to disturb the peaceand serenity of his mind. The faithful {327}flocked from the several churches he came near, to see him, and torender him all the service in their power, hoping to receive benefitfrom the plenitude of his benediction.
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