His clothes were very plain, andunder them be wore a hair shirt. at condition; others weretormented divers other ways, such as nothing but the most hellish malicewas capable of suggesting. This is acknowledged by the oriental bishops, assembled at Constantinople, in 552, (t. Polycarp's martyrdom.
, in 1642, commanded it to be kept a holyday of obligation. He was some time after ordainedbishop of Canes, in Mesopotamia, which country he cleared of idolatry,dissensions, and other vices. Conscious therefore of his own chaste behavior towards her, it could notbut raise a great concern in his breast, Perpetua wasdiscoursing with them; but certain angels came and drove hence Optatusand Aspasius; and bade them not to disturb the martyrs, but bereconciled to each other.
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