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on pretence of a necessarylawsuit, and he received from his hands twenty-five ducats, which wasall he had. Nevertheless, if they choose to refrain outof respect for some time, we do not think their devotion ought to bereprehended. Nicephorus, thethird martyr, was impatient of delay, and leaped of his own accord intothe bloody mortar. Among them was a youth of not yet twenty, who had his eyes lifted up toheaven, and his arms extended in the form of a cross, not i

He was lodged in the abbot's apartment, where he lay ill for neara month. Gregory the Great; as also inthe true Martyrology of Bede. 201,) and condemns too anxious aninquiry and suspicion of imposture in the poor, as contrary to Christiansim He then gave away all he had in the world, and having thus reducedhimself to absolute poverty, that he might die to