imself a
Christian. Both were brought before the judge whom Metaphrastes and
Usuard call Arian, and who had already put to death SS. Asclas, Timothy,
Paphnutius, and several other martyrs: after making them suffer all
manner of tortures, he condemned them to be burnt alive. When the fire
was kindled about them, Apollonius prayed: "Lord, deliver not to beasts
the souls who confess thee; but manifest thy power." At that instant a
cloud of dew encompassed the martyrs, and put out the fire. The judge
and people cried out at this miracle: "The God of the Christians is the
great and only God." The prefect of Egypt being informed of it, caused
the judge and the two confessors to be brought, loaded with irons, to
Alexandria. During the journey, Apollonius, by his instructions,
prevailed so far upon those who conducted him, that they presented
themselves also to the judge with their prisoners, and confessed
themselves likewise to be Christians. The prefect, finding their
constancy invincible, caused them all to be thrown into the sea, about
the year 311. Their bodies were afterwards found on the shore, and were
all put into one sepulchre. "By whom," says Rufinus, "many miracles are
wrought to the present time, and the vows and prayers of all are
received, and are accomplished. Hither the Lord was pleased to bring me,
and to fulfil my requests." See Rufinus, Vit. Patr l. 2, c. 19, p. 477.
Palladius Lausiac. c. 65, 66.

ST. JULIAN, ARCHBISHOP OF TOLEDO, C.

HE presided in the fourteenth and fifteenth councils of Toledo. King
Wemba, falling sick, received penance and the monastic habit from his
hands, and recovering, lived afterwards a monk. St. Julian has left us a
History of the Wars of king Wemba, a book against the Jews, and three
books On Prognostics, or on death, and the state of souls after death.
He teaches that love, and a desire of being united to God, ought to
extinguish in us the natural fear of death: that the saints in heaven
pray for us, earnestly desire our happiness, and know our actions,
either in God whom they behold, and in whom they discover all truth
which it concerns them to know; or by the angels, the messengers of God
on earth: but that the damned do not ordinarily know what passes on
earth, because they neither see God nor converse with our angels. He
says that prayers for the dead are thanksgivings for the good, a
propitiation for the souls in purgatory, but {549} no relief to the
damned. He was raised