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{438} These reflections atlength sunk so deep into his mind, that he resolved to quit the world. The noble lady Jazdundocta was brought thither, and earnestlypressed to throw but a feather at the martyr, that she might seem toobey the order of the king. The good patriarch, pursuant to the decrees of the synod, restored holyimages throughout the extent of his jurisdiction. He says further, _Let him take up his cross_; this is, bearing not onlyall reproaches and injurious words, but also every kind of sufferings ordeath.

John frequently retired into a neighboring cavern,which he had made in the rock, where no one could come to disturb hisdevotions, or interrupt his tears. Mostof the works of St. Victorian in the martyrologies. Whence acontest arising between Arno, St.