Peterwatched long before the signal for matins, and after, with the rest. Stephen, Abbot. hangeable serenity of mind, and in the sweetness of the living God,he was utterly a stranger to anger. While others went toprofane diversions, he retired into some church or into his closet,making prayer and study his only pleasure.
The people of Alexandria, famed for riots and tumults, then divided;some demanding the return of Dioscorus, others supporting Proterius. Catharine in meditating on thepassion of Christ, which was her daily exercise, but to which shetotally devoted herself every week from Thursday noon to three o'clockin the afternoon on Friday. God was pleased himself to comfort us in this our extreme misery, by avision which he vouchsafed to the priest Victor, who suffered martyrdoma few days after. St Joseph.
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