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with so much cruelty, as tomangle and tear off the flesh in many parts: under which torment themartyr expired. Being elected bishop of Gaza, in 396, John, themetropolitan and archbishop of Caesarea, wrote to the patriarch ofJe MARCH III. Sylvester, one of hisfellow-laborers, who was appointed by him the first pastor of thischurch, and was honored in it on the 5th of February.

He wishes he could make a pilgrimage to Rome,to see and kiss those chains at which the devils tremble, and which theangels reverence, while they venerate the hands which were bound withthem. Victor Vitensis, l. 23, in Hebr. ACACIUS was bishop of Antioch, probably the town of that name inPhrygia, where the Marcionites were numerous.