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In 1033, the remains of St. Francis ofSales, throughout his whole nineteenth entertainment, extremelyrecommends devotion to him, and extols his merits, principally hisvirginity, humility, constancy, and courage. A town in Cornwall bears the name of St. MARTINIANUS, HERMIT AT ATHENS.

Prayer was his centre. Martyrs who died in the Great Pestilence in Alexandria. Serapion, Abbot of Arsinoe. Jovian honorablyrestored him, and Valens, moreover, created him treasurer of his ownprivate purse, and of Bithynia.