, king of Soissons, reunitedBurgundy, Neustria, and Austrasia to his former dominions, and becamesole monarch of France. I believeboys of his age were struck with astonishment at the gravity of hismanners and words. The churchis diffused over the whole world, and cannot be reduced to one littleportion, or as it were chained to a part, as the Novatians, whosehistory he touches upon. GREGORY II.
cts, he would sprinkle their gray hairs with their blood, woulddestroy their bodies, and would cause their dead remains to be beaten topowder. We find them mentioned there in the fourth century. After the king's officers had carriedaway the plunder of his shrine, it was privately buried under the placewhere the shrine before stood, though the spot is now unknown. This persecutionwas long and cruel, coming from all that was most dear to her in thisworld.
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