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The saint often urges that the Iconoclasts condemned themselves by allowing veneration to the cross, for the image of Christ upon the cross is more than the bare cross. He had also one sister, Florentia by name, who had consecratedherself to God in the state of virginity. rs,upon racks, in the midst of boiling furnaces, or flames, and in theclaws or teeth of furious wild beasts. his senses, to purify the faculties of his soul, and entertain in his{668} heart a constant fire of devotion, by oc

Abdas had doneill in destroying the temple, but did well in refusing to rebuild it;for nothing can ma 319, he teaches, that no disposition of our souls contributes moreeffectually to our sanctification, than t f her jewels made a most beautiful and sumptuouscross, which she placed at the head of the tomb of St. He made a general confession of his whole life to F.