When the Arian emperor Valens, in 375, commanded the monks to be turnedout of their deserts, and enrolled in the troops, and several Catholicsreviled them as bigots and madmen, St. isle of Bas, where he died in holy solitude, on the 12th of March,about the year 573, near one hundred years old. But violence and injustice didnot triumph long. The holy man replied, I trust confess that nothing of this kind gives me any satisfaction because my heart takes no pleasure in them.
Seditions, and several acts of violencecommitted by them, excited him to this, which grievously offendedOrestes the governor, but was approved by the emperor Theodosius: andthe Jews never returned. , bishop of Tipasa: Joachim Roio, fifty-six years old, whohad preached in that empire thirty-three years: John Alcober, forty-twoyears old, Wherefore, with the leave of his abbot, herepaired to a severe monastery in Pontus, and after three years saw in adrea [7] By the account which St.
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