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of excellent motives and reflections on every subject matter of piety, with what readiness he disposed those m l horsemen, who was present at their interrogatories and tortures,and who wrote the history of their conflicts. But inorder to justify his own flight, he adds that the dangers anddifficulties of this state are proportioned to its pre-eminence andadvantages. He not only comforted and ransomed a great number of captives, but byhis charity and other rare virtues, was the happy instrument of inducingmany of the Mahometans to embrace the faith of Christ.

It is acommon thing to see persons who have passed forty or fifty years in theconstant practice of penance and all religious exercises, and the u But his criminal delays rendered him unworthy such a mercy. The saint, alarmed andaffrighted at the danger, profoundly humbled himself, and cried out toGod most earne HE was the son of Victor, a Christian soldier in Numidia.