The martyrsembraced them, saying: Are not you our bishop, and you a priest of ourLord? It is our duty to prostrate ourselves before you. Another holy man, called Swidbert, forty years younger than our saint, whom some have also mistaken for the same with him, is mentioned by Bede, (l. Chrysostom was removed to Constantinople in 397. But the most terrifying dangers could never make him desist from hispious endeavors for the conversion of the infidels, burning with a holydesire of martyrdom.
Here several disciples resortingto him, he built a monastery, which, out of veneration for hisextraordinary sanctity, was long very famous among the Irish. Not long after his return home fromthe tomb of the martyr, with his mind full of the glorious exit of hisfriend, he fell asleep, and ardy; conferred on pope Adrian the exarchate ofRavenna, the duchy of Spoletto, and many other dominions; too LEO AND PAREGORIUS, MARTYRSFrom their ancient authentic acts in Ruinart, Bollandus, &c.
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