67,) who being converted to God,would not be compelled by the threats of the governor or any punishment,to appear again upon the stage. Gregoryseemed to have forgot the danger he was in of being exalted to thepontifical throne; for he fe Dionysius. He often met with the like plots and assaults from several ofhis own disciples, which procured him the repeated merit, though not thecrown, of martyrdom.
t their commerce with God; but they who leave prayer fornecessary works of charity or obedience, find God still in the exercisesof those virtues. His mother-in-law, Bassula,loved him constantly, as if he had been her own son: they continued tolive several years in the same house, and had in all things the samemind. He died in 565. The governor, seeing it impossible to overcome their constancy,condemned them to lose their heads.
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