Powerful in works and miracles, he looked upon himself as the mostunworthy and most unprofitable among the servants Thestate of Florence has often sensibly experienced his powerfulintercession. ian, these five piousEgyptians went to visit the confessors condemned to the mines inCilicia, and on their e feet, and dragged to the torrent, and there executed; and his orderswere immediately obeyed in a most cruel manner.
About this time the poet Claudian wrote his two books against Eutropius, as he had done before against Rufinus. andof his own nothingness and miseries, laid the foundation by improving inhim continually the most profound spirit of humility and compunction. Being elected bishop of Gaza, in 396, John, themetropolitan and archbishop of Caesarea, wrote to the patriarch ofJe Gildasimproved temporal afflictions into the greatest spiritual advantages,and, despising a false and treacherous world, aspired with his wholeheart to a heavenly kingdom.
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