fox Christ's sake in my youth, when I was in a
condition to enjoy the world. As to my monastery and my friends, I
recommend them to God. If you think to frighten me into a compliance by
your threats, as a child is awed by the rod, you only lose your labor.
For though unable to walk, and subject to many other corporeal
infirmities, I trust in Christ that he will enable me to undergo, in
defence of his cause, the sharpest tortures you can inflict on nay weak
body." The emperor employed several persons to endeavor to overcome his
resolution, but in vain: so seeing himself vanquished by his constancy,
he confined him two years in a close stinking dungeon, where he suffered
much from his distemper and want of necessaries. He was also cruelly
scourged, having received three hundred stripes. In 818, he was, removed
out of his dungeon, and banished into the isle of Samothracia, where he
died in seventeen days after his arrival, on the 12th of March. His
relics were honored by many miraculous cures. He has {588} left us his
Chronographia, or short history from the year 824, the first of
Dioclesian, where George Syncellus left off, to the year 813.[1] His
imprisonment did not allow him leisure to polish the style. See his
contemporary life, and the notes of Goar and Combefis, two learned
Dominicans, on his works, printed at Paris, in 1655.

Footnotes:
1. George Syncellus, (i. e. secretary to the patriarch St. Tarasius,) a
holy monk, and zealous defender of holy images, was a close friend
of St. Theophanes, and died about the year 800. In his chronicle are
preserved excellent fragments of Manetho, the Egyptian, of Julius
Africanus, Eusebius, &c.

SAINT KENNOCHA, VIRGIN IN SCOTLAND,

IN THE REIGN OF KING MALCOLM II.

FROM her infancy she was a model of humility, meekness, modesty, and
devotion. Though an only daughter, and the heiress of a rich and noble
family, fearing lest the poison which lurks in the enjoyment of
perishable goods should secretly steal into her affections, or the noise
of the world should be a hinderance to her attention to heavenly things
and spiritual exercises, she rejected all solicitations of suitors and
worldly friends, and, in the bloom of life, made an entire sacrifice of
herself to God, by making her religious profession in a great nunnery,
in the county of Fife. In this holy state, by an extraordinary love of
poverty and mortification, a wonderful gift of prayer, and purity or
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