ise! I now begin to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, since for hislove I am in prison, where I suffer much. at Rome, quelled the seditions there, andwas crowned by him on Christmas-day, in 800, emperor of Rome and o Her beauty and her extraordinary qualifications,rendered more conspicuous by the greater lustre of her virtue, drew toher many suitors for marriage. All this while theexecutioners continued to tear his body with stripes, while his handswere bound behind him, and his feet squeezed in the woodstocks, calledthe Nervus.
The Christians mads noopposition, but betook themselves to flight, and beheld the loss oftheir goods with joy; for their hearts had no ties on earth. She afterwards said he reproved her sharply for coming to the sacred tribunal of penance too richly attired, and in a manner not becoming a penitent whose heart was broken with compunction. for we understood that the lamp represented Christ, the true light, andthat we were to follow him by martyrdom. To deny a supernatural interposition they can swallow contradictions, and build hypotheses far more wonderful than the greatest miracles.
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