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IRENAEUS, BISHOP OF SIRMIUM, MFrom the original authentic acts of his trial in Henschenius, Ruinart,p. 785 and 819. All can obtain that, because it isthe gratuitous gift of God, but this labor is but of a small number whorise after a fall, and recover by tears, and by destroying the flesh. The saint waschosen, very young, first, mistress of the novices, then sub-prioress,and, in the twenty-fifth year of her age, was appointed perpetualprioress.

CYRIL,PATRIARCH OF ALEXANDRIA. The proconsul, Anulinus, addressing himselffirst to Dativus, asked him of what condition he was, and if he hadassisted at the collect or assembly of the Christians. The young Nicephorus was from hiscradle animated to the practice of virtue by the domestic example of hisfather: a ,Archbishop of New York.