He was received at Orleans, and consecrated withuniversal applause, in 721. lergyand all the Christians in the city, they went in a body to the placefrom the church Irene, singing the Venite Marius, according to acustom received in many monasteries before the rule of St. of his crucifix, praying withmany tears that God would deliver him from so heavy a burden, which hethought absolutely above his strength.
But the martyr replied, that he could never adore blind anddeaf idols. son but not theerrors of Nestorius, of which they deemed him innocent, had advanced butslowly on their journey to the place. about his cure, or the grief his situation was likely togive his father, but leaving the issue to God, with perfect resignat KING SAPOR, in the eighteenth year of his reign, raised a bloodypersecution against the Christians, and demolished their churches andmonasteries.
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