MARCH III. Footnotes:1. The city of Dijon having procured leave from the duke of Savoy, thesaint preached the Lent there in 1604, with wonderful fruit; but refusedthe present offered him by the city on that occasion. Peter, the learned and pious abbot of Celles, callsthem angels, and testifies that he placed an extraordinary confidence intheir prayers.
Ignatius was crowned with martyrdom in the year 107. He says, the emperors persecuted the Novatians of theirown authority, not at the instigation of the church. His parents gave him a Christian education, andBarbatus in his youth laid the foundation of that eminent sanctity whichrecommends him to our veneration. Out of it St.
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