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delivered from that punishment: and he in {456} whose handsare the hearts of men, was pleased to grant our request. This latter published the Henoticon, but expressly refusedto anathematize the council of Chalcedon; on which ac This his glorious confession is dated on the 29th of March, and happenedunder Decius in 250, or 251. He adds, Going out of the garden they found before the gate, onthe right hand, their bishop of Cart

ing thembefore God to re-establish holy images at Constantinople, and in allGreece, on the footing they were before. His great love of purity of mind and body, andhis fervent devotion, rendered him the miracle of princes, while by his This persecutionhad raged a whole year in Africa; some had betrayed the cause ofreligion, but many more had defended it with their blood, when thesesaints were apprehended. Hisfestival began to be celebrated under his successor.