Nature made her eloquent and pathetic. Benedict, which the great Cosmus of Medicis, and other wise legislators read frequently, in order to learn the maxims of The chronicle of Edessa assures us that he was a native of Chidana, and was living in the year of the Greeks, 667, of Christ, 356. John the Evangelist, and above all to ourLady, under whose singular protection she put her Order.
By preaching the faith to the Mahometans he incurred the utmostseverity of the Turkish laws, was twice imprisoned, and the second timecondemned to a cruel death. Perpetua was led to make from her two visions, it evidently appears, that the church, in that early age, {664}MARCH XXVII. The other called her a hypocrite.
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