scandal given by these
cowards. Julian, who was grievously afflicted with the gout, and one of
his servants, called Chronion, were set on the backs of camels, and,
cruelly scourged through the {481} whole city, and at length were
consumed by fire. Besas, a soldier, was beheaded. See St. Dionysius of
Alex. in Eusebius, l, 6, c. 41, ed Val.

ST. THALILAEUS, A CILICIAN

HE lived a recluse on a mountain in Syria, and shut himself up ten years
in an open cage of wood. Theodoret asked him why he had chosen so
singular a practice. The penitent answered: "I punish my criminal body,
that God, seeing my affliction for my sins, may be moved to pardon them,
and to deliver me from, or at least to mitigate the excessive torments
of the world to come, which I have deserved." See Theodoret, Phil. c.
28. John Mosch in the Spiritual Meadow, c. 59, p. 872, relates that
Thalihaeus, the Cilician, spent sixty years in an ascetic life, weeping
almost without intermission; and that he used to say to those that came
to him: "Time is allowed us by the divine mercy for repentance and
satisfaction, and wo {sic} to us if we neglect it."

ST. GALMIER, IN LATIN, BALDOMERUS.

HE was a locksmith in Lyons, who lived in great poverty and austerity,
and spent all his leisure moments in holy reading and prayer. He gave
his gains to the poor, and sometimes even his tools. He repeated to
every one: "In the name of the Lord let us always give thanks to God."
Vivencius, abbot of St. Justus, (afterwards archbishop of Lyons,)
admired his devotion in the church, but was more edified and astonished
when he had conversed with him. He gave him a cell in his monastery, in
which the servant of God sanctified himself still more and more by all
the exercises of holy solitude, and by his penitential labor. He died a
subdeacon about the year 650. His relics were very famous for miracles,
and a celebrated pilgrimage, till they were scattered in the air by the
Huguenots, in the sixteenth century. The Roman Martyrology names him on
the day of his death, the 27th of February.

ST. NESTOR, B.M.

EPOLIUS, whom the emperor Decius had appointed governor of Lycia,
Pamphylia, and Phrygia, sought to make his court to that prince by
surpassing his colleagues in the rage and cruelty with which he
persecuted the meek disciples of Christ. At that time Nestor, bishop of
Sida in Pamphylia, (as Le Quien demonstrates, not of Perge, or of
Mandis, or Madigis, as some by mistake affirm