and do you ask
me my name, and, not satisfied with that, you must also know those of
the other ministers? Do you hope to conquer many; you, whom I alone am
able thus to confound? If you desire to know our names, mine is Acacius.
If you would know more, they call me Agathangelus, and my two companions
are Piso, bishop of the Trojans, and Menander, a priest. Do now what you
please." MARTIAN.-"You shall remain in prison till the emperor is
acquainted with what has passed on this subject, and sends his orders
concerning you."

The emperor Decius having read the interrogatory, recompensed Martian by
making him governor of Pamphilia, but admired so much the prudence and
constancy of Acacius, that he ordered him to be discharged, and suffered
him to profess the Christian religion.

This his glorious confession is dated on the 29th of March, and happened
under Decius in 250, or 251. How long St. Acacius survived does not
appear. The Greeks, Egyptians, and other oriental churches, honor his
name on the 31st of March; though his name occurs not in the Roman
Martyrology. See his authentic acts in Ruinart, p. 152; Tillemont, t. 2,
p. 357; Fleury, t. 2; Ceillier, t. 3, p. 560.

ST. GUY, C.

HE is called by the Germans Witen, and was forty years abbot of Pomposa,
in the dutchy of Ferrara, in Italy, a man eminent in all virtues,
especially patience, the love of solitude, and prayer. He died in 1046.
The emperor, Henry III., caused his relics to be translated to Spire,
which city honors him as its principal patron. See his life, by a
disciple, in the Acta Sanctorium of Henschenius, and another, shorter,
of the same age.

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