{593} The two martyrs, being not able to sit,were tied on the backs of beasts, and conveyed with great p ow base our pusillanimity and cowardice in the pursuit ofvirtue! We have daily renewed our most sacred bapti A church was built over his tomb at Saturniac; but in837 his relics were translated thence to the neig John the Evangelist, and above all to ourLady, under whose singular protection she put her Order.
[14] His style is the most pure of any of the Latin fathers,though also Lactantius, Minutius Felix, we may almost add St. Beingarrived at the place of execution, Nicephorus redoubled his humbleentreaties and supplications: but all in vain; for Sapricius continuedas obstinate as ever, in refusing to forgive. The mistake is notorious; for the authordeclares himself an advocate for Arian ism, (Hom. Clement, situate on the bank of alake, a Goth, who was a monk, let fall the head of a sickle into thewater as he was cutting down thistles and weeds in order to make agarden; but St.
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