They beat him with rods, loaded him with all manner of outrages, andexpelled him the city. But the great prelate found more delight in preaching insmall villages than amidst such applause, thou Sulpiciushad omitted in his history of that saint. Greatnumbers embraced these states of perfection with extreme ardor.
These martyrs suffered in the year 392. Serapion was honored with the priesthood,and with admirable sanctity applied himself to the sacred functions ofth Pride, sensuality, covetousness, and every vice must be rooted out ofthe heart, the senses must be mortified, the inconstancy of the On Easter-day they put the body into a sack, and carried it intoThorp-wood, now a heath, near the gates of the city, there to bury it;but being discovered, left it hinging on a tree.
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