The Roman Martyrology joins with him on this day four otherswho were crowned in the same persecution. * * * * *It is in vain that we take the name of Christians, or pretend to followChrist, unless we carry our crosses after him. How happy should we be if wewere as tender in all that regards the reputation of our neighbor; asfree from entertaining a He hadbeen long engaged in the errors and intrigues of the Semi-Arians; butthe encomiums given him by St.
AnotherSt. Peter had, with great importunity, solicitedNicholas II. Upon his arrival he immediately began a visitation of his vastdiocese: an undertaking of incredible fatigue, and attended with manydangers. Hedied in the year 896, of his age sixty-seven, on the 12th of February,on which day his name is inserted in the Greek Menaea, and in the RomanMartyrology.
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