It was then the custom at theelection of a pope to consult the emperor as the head of the senate andpeople. He was a pious and victorious prince, andvery tender of his subjects. Irenaeus resisted all these violent assaults, opposing those words of ourLord: _If any one renounce me before men, I will renounce him before myFather who is to Heaven_. [2] Sophronius, in asermon on the exaltation of the cross, mentions the custom of taking thecross out of its case at Mid-Lent to be venerated.
Cave imagines, that St. Sturmius, first abbot of Fulda, and other eminentpersons, fled to this sanctuary. In an assembly which washeld in his presence, in 379, St. John, he would have inquired of him, whether he himself reallyappeared to this woman, or whether it was an angel in his shape, orwhether the vision only passed in her imagination.
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