d his days in that monastery; so desired them to provide the churchof Constantinople with a worthy pastor in his room. St Thomas of Aquino, Doctor of the Church and Confessor. His cell was five miles from the church, probably the samewhich had been built a little {678} before, by order of the emper But above all other qualities for the pastoral charge, herequires an eminent gift of prayer and contemplation.
See Le Brun, liturg. When the rest were thrown into a wagon to be carried to thepile, the youngest of them (whom the acts call Melito) w t of silk: or the iron combs, withwhich he is said to have been tormented, gave occasion to this choice. of saints with which it peopledmany foreign countries; for, under God, its inhabitants derived fromtheir glo
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