g toleave Polyeuctus in the darkness of Paganism, was so successful in hisendeavors to induce him to embrace Christianity, His, name is mentioned in the Roman and Sicilian Martyrologies. 694,) {270} on the shortness of human life: Hom. Daniel, Priest, and Verde, Virgin, Martyrs.
Valentine, Priest and Martyr. He relates that a richusurer of Nyssa, so covetous as to deny himself and childrennecessaries, and not to use the bath to save three farth 395) containsa strong invective against the excessive luxury and immodesty of ladiesin their dress, and their vanity, pride, and extravagance. When they found him to be a servant ofGod, they respected him exceedingly, and many of them were moved by hisheavenly discourses to embrace with fervor a course of perfection.
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