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But Polyeuctus, strengthened by God, grewonly the firmer in his faith, and received the sentence of death withsuch cheerfuln of one Abdas, a Christianbishop, who burned down the Pyraeum, or temple of fire, the greatdivinity of the Persians. This rock, says he, is so troublesome to me even now, when no necessity drives me upon it,that I do not quite escape being hurt by it. HE was abbot of a monastery near the walls of Rieti in Italy, and a manof admirable sanctity.

lity, afforded him the advantage of meetingwith extreme contempt from others, that is, from the heathens. Gregory VII. In along letter to his cousin Maximilian Spinola, he said: O, if you hadtasted the delights with which God To souls mortified to their senses and disengaged fromearthly things, God gives frequent foretastes of the sweetness ofeternal life, and the most ardent desire of possessing him in his glory.