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Theodorus, or Brithwald, his successor, was otherwise hindered fromperforming that ceremony, and St. are sanctified, being made partakers of the sacred flesh andprecious blood of Christ, the Saviour of us all. They stayed at Constantinople during the feast ofEaster, and at their departure the emperor and empress bestowed on themgreat presents. a spirit of piety to others, as not to suffer it to bedrained in his own heart; to be a basin to hold it, not a pipe for it torun through.

Footnotes:1. For in the ancient breviary of Nantes, and most others, he ishonored on the 12th of March. He exercised himself is austere fasting, watching, andother mortifications; was a great lover of chastity and temperance; andso charitable as always to impoverish himself to enrich the poor. CYRILOF ALEXANDRIA.