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He then began boldlyto propose the truths of the gospel to them. Cyril, an eye-witness, wrote immediately to the emperor Constantius, anexact account of this miraculous phenomenon: and Chrysostom says his relics were carried in triumph on the shoulders ofall the cities from Rome to Antioch. They attempted in vainto unite themselves to the Eustathians, who for thirty years past hadheld their s

This place Saint Edward {386} the Confessor bestowed on thegreat abbey of Fecam in Normandy, which was enriched with a portion ofhis relics. Gregory theGreat assures us, that he miraculously checked an impetuous flood of theriver Auser, now called the Serchio, when it threatened to drown greatpart of the city. The Maronites were called so from these religious, in the fifth century, and adhered to the council of Chalcedon against the Eutychians. All hisspare time was spent in solitude and prayer; and he often visited holyhermits, to spend the nights with them in tears and singing the divinepraises, prostrate on the ground.