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in Notas Molinei) demonstrates. See Palladius, Rufinus, and Sozomen, abridged by Tillemont, t. {398}THE EMPRESS THEODORA. Her virtue prepared her tomake a glorious confession of her faith before the persecutors, afterthe publication of the cruel edicts of Dioclesian and Maximian againstthe Christians.

Those whom God raises to perfect virtue,and closely unites to himself, must cut off and put away every thingthat can be an obstacle to this perfect union. Sometimes, indeed, they were perceived torush towards them with their usual impetuosity, but, withheld He boldly preached Christ to the Mahometans, andbaptized several: for which he was cruelly tortured, scourged, c Bullarii, t.