fy: all the pagan deities
wherever he passed, gave him the like assurances, as he himself
writes (Julian, ep. 2.) But in Persia he rashly ventured into wilds
and deserts, with an army of sixty-five thousand men, where he was
defeated and slain in June, 363. Ammianus, who was then in the army,
only says that he was mortally wounded in the battle, and died in
his tent the same day, before noon. Theodoret, Sozomen, and the acts
of St. Theodoret the martyr, say, that finding himself wounded, he
threw up a handful of blood towards heaven, crying out: "Thou hast
conquered, O Galilean, thou hast conquered." It was revealed to many
holy hermits, that God cut him off to give peace to his church.
2. Hom. in SS. Juv. et Max. t. 2, p. 583.

ST. PROJECTUS, BISHOP OF CLERMONT, M.

CALLED AT LYONS ST. PRIEST, AT SENS ST. PREST, IN SAINT-ONGE ST. PREILS,
AT PARIS AND IN PICARDY ST. PRIX.

THE episcopal see of Auvergne, which was founded by St. Austremonius, in
the middle of the third century, has been honored with many holy
bishops, of whom twenty-six are ranked among the saints. Of these the
most eminent are St. Alidius, called in French Allyre, the fourth
bishop, in 380, St. Sidonius Apollinaris in 482, St. Gallus in 656, St.
Prix in 674, and St. Bont in 710. About the year 1160, the title of
bishops of Auvergne was changed into that of Clermont, from the city of
this name. St. Prix was a native of Auvergne, and trained up in the
service of the church, under the care of St. Genesius, first archdeacon,
afterwards bishop of Auvergne, and was well skilled in plain song,
(which was esteemed in that age the first part of the science of a
clergyman,) and in holy scriptures and church history. The parish of
Issoire, and afterwards the nunnery, of Candedin, (now probably
Chantoen, a convent of barefooted Carms,) were the chief theatres of his
zeal, till about the year 666 he was called by the voice of the people,
seconded by Childeric II., king of Austrasia, to the episcopal dignity,
upon the death of Felix, bishop of Auvergne. Partly by his own ample
patrimony, and partly by the great liberalities of Genesius, the holy
count of Auvergne, he was enabled to found several monasteries,
churches, and hospitals; so that all distressed persons in his extensive
diocese were provided for, and a spirit of fervor in the exercises of
religion, and all Christian virtues, reigned in all parts. This was the
frui