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Having spent some time withhis new master, in recompense of signal spiritual services, besides hisliberty, he also received a cloak, a tunic, or undergarment, and a bookof the gospels. Such a life is a kind ofimitation of the Seraphims, to whom to live and to love are one and thesame thing. Omar, his successor, took Damascus in 636, and after a siege of twoyears, Jerusalem, in 638. This did not only prevent hisgoing, but had such an effect upon the king, when he was shown the marks

Lewis, in which mention is madeof miraculous cures performed by him, ibid. The saint discovered thehook concealed under his alluring baits, which did not, however, hinderhim from obeying the emperor's summons to Constantinop The tradition of the Greeks in theirmenologies tells us that St: Matthias planted the faith about Cappadociaand on the coasts of the Caspian sea, residing chiefly near the portIssus. The tribune then consented that they mightappear in the amphitheatre habited as they were.