gius,
a mile from the place of his triumph, in the city Barsaloe, called
afterwards from that monastery, Sergiopolis. The monk that attended him
brought back his Colobium, or liners tunic without sleeves. The saint's
body was afterwards brought into Palestine. Some years after, it was
removed to Constantinople, and lastly to Rome.

The seventh general council[1] proves the use of pious pictures from the
head of this holy martyr, and his miraculous image, then kept at Rome
with great veneration: where it is still preserved in the church
belonging to the monastery of our Lady ad Aquas Sylvias, which now bears
the name of SS. Vincent and Anastasius.[2] The rest of his relics are
reposited in the holy chapel ad Scalas Sanctas, near St. John Lateran.
See the history of many miracles wrought by them in Bollandus. St.
Anastasius foretold the speedy fall of the tyrant Chosroes: and ten days
after his martyrdom the emperor Heraclius entered Persia.

Footnotes:
1. Act. 4.
2. Mabill. Iter. Ital. p. 141.

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JANUARY XXIII.

ST. RAYMUND, OF PENNAFORT, C.

From the bull of his canonization, by Clement VIII. in 1601, and his
life, written by several Spanish, Italian, and French authors. See
Fleury, b. 78, n. 55, 84, and chiefly Touron, Hommes Illustres de
l'Ordre de S. Domin. t. 1, p. 1.

A.D. 1275.

THE house of Pegnafort, or, as it is pronounced, Pennafort, was
descended from the counts of Barcelona, and nearly allied to the kings
of Aragon. Raymund was born in 1175, at Pennafort, a castle in
Catalonia, which in the fifteenth century was changed into a convent of
the order of St. Dominick. Such was his rapid progress in his studies,
that at the age of twenty he taught philosophy at Barcelona, which he
did gratis, and with so great reputation, that he began then to be
consulted by the ablest masters. His principal care was to instil into
his scholars the most perfect maxims of a solid piety and devotion, to
compose all differences among the citizens, and to relieve the
distressed. He was about thirty years of age when he went to Bologna, in
Italy, to perfect himself in the study of the canon and civil law,
commenced Doctor in that faculty, and taught with the same
disinterestedness and charity as he had done in his own country. In 1219
Berengarius, bishop of Barcelona, who had been at Rome, took Raymund
home with him, to the great regret of the university and senate of
Bologna; and, not content with giving him a