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He had governed hischurch eight years in peace from the death of Valens, when, in 386, hepassed to a glorious immortality, in the seventieth year of his age. Scoti-chron. The merit of the queen in the great work of her husband's conversion isacknowledged by our historians, and she deserved by her piety and greatzeal to be compared by St. Heavenhad pity on them both, and, to reunite them, admonished Montanus by adream, which he related to us as follows: It appeared to me that

Possevinsays he saw his paschal discourses in the Vatican library, for everyyear of hie episcopacy, namely thirty-one, from the year 414. Patrick, Bishop and Confessor, Apostle of Ireland. Other Protestants, especially the English, are moresincere, and prove them this father's most undoubted work, as DoctorCave, in St. All Irenaeus's family was in the utmost concern forhim.