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essities to which this state subjects him, or to dream of flightswhich only angels and their fellow inhabitants of bliss take. SAINT SULPICIUS SEVERUS[1]DISCIPLE OF ST. The saint wascanonized by Clement III. Basil did notcease to praise and glorify God in his dungeon, and Pegasus repairedthither to him in hopes, by promises and entreaties, to work

Basiliscus his admiral, who, onexpelling him, usurped the imperial throne in 476, and held it twoyears, was a most furious stickler for that heresy. The martyr answered: It is better to die, in order to live eternally. SIGEFRIDE, OR SIGFRID,BISHOP, APOSTLE OF SWEDES. This rock, says he, is so troublesome to me even now, when no necessity drives me upon it,that I do not quite escape being hurt by it.