relates[2]
that St. Serapion gave an abstract of his own life, and an abridged rule
of Christian perfection, in very few words, which he would often repeat,
saying: "The mind is purified by spiritual knowledge, (or by holy
meditation and prayer,) the spiritual passions of the soul by charity,
and the irregular appetites by abstinence and penance." This saint died
in his banishment in the fourth age, and is commemorated on this day in
the Roman Martyrology. See his works, those of St. Athanasius in several
places, St. Jerom, Catall. c. 99; Socrates {641}, l. 4, c. 23; Sozom. l.
4, c. 9; Photius, Col. 85; Tillem. t. 8; Ceillier, t. 6, p. 36.

Footnotes:
1. A Latin translation of St. Serapion's book against the Manichees,
given F. Turrianus the Jesuit, is published in the Bibliotheca
Patrum, printed at Lyons. and in F. Canisius's Lectiones Antiquae, t.
5, part 1, p. 35. The learned James Basnage, who republished this
work of Canisius with curios additions and {notes}, has added the
Greek text, t. 1, p. 37.
2. Socrat. Hist. l. 4, c. 23.

ST. ENNA, OR ENDEUS, ABBOT

HIS father, Conall Deyre, was lord of Ergall, a large territory in
Ulster, in which principality Enna succeeded him; but by the pious
exhortations of his sister, St. Fanchea, abbess of Kill-Aine, at the
foot of mount Bregh, in the confines of Meath, he left the world, and
became a monk. Going abroad, by her advice, he lived some time in the
abbey of Rosnal, or the vale of Ross, under the abbot Mansenus. At
length returning home, he obtained of AEngus, king of Munster, a grant of
the isle of Arra, or Arn, wherein he founded a great monastery, in which
he trained up many disciples, illustrious for sanctity, insomuch that
the island was called Arran of the Saints. His death must have happened
in the beginning of the sixth century. The chief church of the island is
dedicated to God in his name, and called Kill-Enda. His tomb is shown in
the churchyard of another church, in the same island, named
Teglach-Enda. See F. Colgan, March 21.

MARCH XXII.

ST. BASIL OF ANCYRA, PRIEST, M.

From the authentic acts of his martyrdom in Ruinart, Henschenius, and
Tillemont, t. 7, p. 375.

A.D. 362.

MARCELLUS, bishop of Ancyra, distinguished himself by his zeal against
the Arians, on which account he was banished by Constantius in 336.[1]
Basil, a ringleader of the Semi-Arians, was intruded into that see, but
was himself deposed by the stanch Ari