our of our hearts and to direct our loue vnto celestiall things This is quite contrary vnto that which the world teacheth for CHRIST saith Blessed be the poore and the world replieth Blessed be the rich CHRIST saith Blessed be they that weepe and the world saith Blessed be they that laugh Our souiour saith Blessed be they that suffer hunger the world saith Blessed are they that are allwaies full Hereby we may see of whose schoole euery one is and whose disciple he is Some are troubled vexed and tired neuer taking repose nor rest to get ritches together to vse delights and pleasures of the world which are hurtfull vnto their soules and yet they seeke after them so earnestly that they could not vse more dilligence if they should haue heard CHRIST say They that seeke riches delights and pleasures of the world be happie and blessed What folly and blindnes is this to professe thy self a Christiane and to liue like a Pagan Either liue as thou beleeuest or beleeue as thou liuest In times past there were in Athens many schooles of Philosophers different one from another as the Stoicks Academicks Peripateticks Pythagoreans Epicureans and Cynicks euery one liued conformeable vnto the opinion of his sect You needed not aske of them whose disciples they were for by their habite and behauiour it was forth with knowne vnto what schoole they belonged You should see in a stoick a graue maiestie an honest behauiour quietnes temperance constancy in one state and stabillitie like a rock in aduersitie In a Cynick an Epicurean yee might haue seene the inconstancy and vanitie of a dissolute person a scoffer pratler and taunter so that euerie one showed in deed what doctrine he professed It were well if euerie Christiā would do so also to witt that euery one in his countenance his words and workes would shew himselfe to be a Christian and the disciple of CHRIST That great Philosopher Picus Mirandula saith very well Not to beleeue the faith of CHRIST IESVS and his doctrine preached so plainly and confirmed with so many miracles is great obstinacy Then to haue receiue and to beleeue the same and to liue contrary to that which it teacheth is folly in the highest degree Is it not extreame folly as that excellent and famous preacher Thomas de villa noua saith in a sermon for vs that fight as we Christians do vnder the banner and standerd of CHRIST Crucified to labour and striue for riches for delights and pleasures of the world CHRIST our captaine is nailed on the Crosse naked poore shamed and reproached and we that be his souldiers will forsooth be rich well apparelled honored and enioye all contentments and pleasures we can procure Is it not a very folly for vs that haue alwaies enioyed in the world consolations recreations and all kind of temporall delights and yet make account to be receiued into the societie of the Apostles and company of the Martyrs S. Paul speaking aloud to all men saith 1. Cor 1 If we suffer as the Saints haue done if we imitate them and their liues we shall raigne with them Which is as if he had said If we do not imitate them we may be well assured we shall not haue their company S. Iohn Euangelist saw a great company of the Saints in heauen and wondering much to see them so bright and beautifull demaunded of an Angell who they were The Angell aunswered Apoc 7. These be they which be come out of tribulation and haue endured in the world many troubles persecutions and death it self How can they that be nice delicate drowned in worldly pleasures come into their cōpany The Saints sit at the table of CHRIST and they all weare the signes and tokens of their torments as CHRIST himself carieth the signalls of his woundes Some carie those markes they receiued in the world hauing beene beheaded stoned boyled or flaied Others how they were broiled killed with clubbes or the like How can those people that were euer rich and laboured to be tenderly cherished honored whollie posessed of worldly delights appeere among them that were flaied boiled to death killed with clubbes stoned or beheaded The same IESVS CHRIST which said Mat. 8. Blessed be the poore Blessed be those that waile Blessed be they that be hungrie Blessed be they that be persecuted saith presently after that Wo to you that be rich Wo to you that haue your content in this world Here you haue it and in the next you shall faile of it As if he had said Remember that there be not two paradises There were two before time but because man was rebellious against God he lost the terrestriall Paradise and was cast out of the same to the end he should not thinck of it nor labour to obtaine it againe And if he should striue to obtaine the same he should be assuered neuer to haue the celestiall paradise for he that hath his paradise heere let him not look to haue the other hereafter So was it said to the vnfortunate rich man who being in the flames of hell lifted vp his eies and seing Abraham and Lazarus asked for one drop of water to coole his tong in that flame but he was answered Remember thou hast had prosperitie therefore look not to haue it any more All these things we are taught by the feast of all Saints and the Catholique Church doth celebrate it to the end we should imitate them If we cannot imitate the Apostles let vs follow the examples of the Martirs If not the martirs yet of the Confessors And if not of the Confessors let vs be ashamed at least that eleuen thousand weak and tender damsells hauing giuen their liues to enioy that which the holie saints in heauen enioy any man should be such a coward or recreant as not to do that which feeble woemen virgins haue endured This is the last reason why the feasts of all saints is celebrated to wiit because we should imitate and follow their steppes both in life and death For all these reasons before mentioned it is iust and reasonable that on this daie we should do honour vnto them all And as S. Iohn Damascene saith Lib 4. de side or-th o◠cap. 6. we are to honour the most B. virgin for that she is the mother of God And we ought to honour S. Iohn Baptist for that he was a prophet the precursor a Martir We should honour the Apostles as the brethren of IESVS CHRIST and witnesses of his life death We are to giue honour to the Martirs as to the souldiers and partakers of the cup of CHRIST We must give reuerence of the Confessors for the conflicts they had within themselues liuing in continuall penance and mortification We must beare reuerence vnto the virgins as vnto the spouses of CHRIST and vnto the other holie saints and all the Angells of the Hierarchies as citisens of heauen enioyeng the presence of God And
heare and determine the causes of him and of the other prisoners which were with him wherupon he gaue a large some of mony vnto the keepers of the prison some of his acquaintance interceding and being his suerties that he might go home vnto his house promising to retorne back with speed Adrian was so well beloued of all men that they seemed not to desire his returne vnto the prison they let him depart and to escape if he would though they knew and sawe themselfes in apparant daunger of life And it is to be thought his suerties were in the same daunger Forthwith some ranne before him to giue notice vnto his wife that he came home Shee hearing this newes did not beleeue it at the first but said Who hath power to put of the gyues with the which I left him fettered herewithall came thither a yong man theire seruant who told them Adrian came home free and discharged She imagining that he had yeelded and now fled to escape Martirdome was much troubled in mind began to weep and when shee sawe him to approch the gate of the house shee threw her sowing work which shee had in her hands on the ground and running locked the gate fast and said I will not haue any thing to do with this vile base dastarly coward that hath returned back and forsaken the good way he had begon and much les will I see him with mine eies I will not heare him speak word vnto me neither will I listen to that tounge which hath dealt deceitfully in the sight of his Creator When he came some what neerer shee held the gate shut very close all the while and said vnto him O man of all men most miscreant and irreligious what hath enforced thee to begin that course which thou wilt not accomplishe who is he that hath gotten thee out of the society of the blessed men with whom I left thee who hath deceiued thee and made thee to depart out of the company of peace and perpetually ioy Tellme tellmee wherfore hast thou tourned thy back and fled before the conflict begin Wherefore doest thou cast downe thy armour on the ground like a dastard before thou sawest thy enemy come to assaile thee wherfore doest thou enroll thy name among the wounded men before there be a sword drawen or arrowe shot what shall I do wretch that I am who was he that ioyned me to a faithles person I haue not deserued to be the wife of a martir nay nowe I shal be called the wife of a Renegate A small time endured my ioye and gladnes and long shall last my shame and reproche S. Adrian staied with out the gate very glad to heare his wife say thes things wherfore he said vnto her Natalia my sister open me the dore for I do not fly to escape death as thou thinkest but come to call thee that thou maiest be present at our martirdome as I haue heretofore promised thee Natalia did not beleiue him but rather called him deceiuer He auerred earnestly vnto her that his words were truth and that if shee would not open the gate quickly he would returne vnto the prison that he might keepe his word and not be depriued of the crowne of martirdome Natalia gaue him then credit and opened the gate and fell humbly at his feet and he embraced her and then both of them returned back vnto the Iaile By the way S. Adrian said vnto his wife Natalia Tell me my dearest what order hast thou taken with thy goodes and patrymony lest after my death all be confiscated and taken from the Natalia made answere my lord and husband take no thought for the temporall and transitory goodes lest they do captiuate thy hart and desire Call to thy remembrance and reuolue in thy mind the goodes that be permanent and euerlasting vnto which thou drawest nere to be partaker together with the other holy men in whose company thou doest desire to dy for the loue of IESVS CHRIST They both being come vnto the prison all wondered that Adrian would returne for they were assured that he came back to his death Then did Maximian comand that all the Christian prisoners should be brought forth before him Some came with ther flesh wounded putrefied for in those places where their Irons and gyues had bene wormes were engendred as was apparant to be seene Natalia came close vnto her husband and said vnto him Be carefull my lord that thy soule be firme stable in God beware thy hart doth nor wauer when they present the tortures before thy corporall sight The present troubles shall endure for a small time but the guerdon and the beatitude shall endure for euer The Emperour looked first vpon Adrian and said vnto him wilt thou continue still in thy folly The blessed man answered I am prepared to giue my life for this which thou callest folly Maximian tooke such indignation at this answere that he caused him in his owne sight to be stripped out of his clothes and to be cruelly scourged The officere were tired and changed they were first one and then another but the tirant was not tired but bid them scourge the holy martir in cruell sort and no lesse the martir stroue to tollerat the torment with a resolute mind and greate patience Oh that one had then seene Natalia howe often the collour chaunged in her face sometimes shee feared that her husband should yeld and shrink at the cruelty of the torments and then shee was pale as a clothe but when shee sawe him endure all constantly and courageously her liuely and cherefull colloure returned into her face Sometimes Adrian looked toward her and though nothing shee said yet only by her countenance he vnderstood howe shee bad him be valliant and resolute and to haue consideration that the more the tormēts encreased so much greater should his reward be The holy martir was beaten with such cruelty that they hauing torne and rent his flesh and laid his ribbes open to the view might also see vnto his bowels The tirant nowe weary to see any more vsed on that fashion at that time commanded him into the same prison where he was before in which place he remained certain daies in the company of the other Christians who had endured the same torment and suffered the same molestation as he had done After this Maximian caused them to be ageine presented vnto him in the place of iudgment The martirs were taken out of the dark prison where thy were brought vnto that state that it affrighted men and moued them to compassion to behold them yet they remained constant as before in the faith of IESVS CHRIST The tirant commaunded the bones of all their legges to be broken to shiuers and one of the hands of St Adrian to be cut of The holy martirs in this torment passed from this vnto a better life euen as they made their prayers vnto our Lord. Then Maximian gaue commaundement
a desert place which was haunted by robbers Wherfore they that heard of his boldnes wondered therat and told him in what danger he was like to be by dwelling there but he feared no temporall perill to escape eternall death This holy saint was of a weak complexion slender and leane but in mind he prepared himself to endure all maner of heat and cold though it afflicted him neuer so much neuerthelesse he was clothed with a â—ackcloth vpon which he wore a garment like a mantle wouen with rough haire of beasts as of camels this S. Antony gaue him at his departure from him His diett was this after the setting of the sonne he took 15. fruits of Carica which is a fruit peculier to Siria much like figgs but bicause as it hath bin said aboue many robbers dwelt in those deserts he staied not long in a place so that he had no cell Lucifer being much aggreiued to see himself so ouer maistred by a monk before he had beganne warre against him began nowe to molest him with sundry temptations He represented vnto him filthy and lasciuious things so that the seruant of God was enforced to think of that which he knew not and to haue that in his imagination which he had neuer proued nor tried He was wroth with himself and knocked his brest at this thinking he was able by force to vanquish this temptation with blowes he was enraged against his own body and said vnto it Thou Asse I will so vse thee that thou shalt not kicke for I will take thy prouender from thee and I will giue thee no meate but strawe I will quell thee with hunger and thirst and will lay heauy loads on thy back I will torment thee with heate and cold and will make thee to haue more mind of thy meat then of thy pleasure This said the blessed yong man and as he said so he did for the continued some times 3. or 4. daies with out meat and yet he laboured hard in digging the ground not entending to sowe any graine theron but only to get out the thorns and euill herbes that budded in his owne body He also made baskets of bulrushes as the monks of Egipt vsed to do yet not omitting for it his oraisons wherin he spent the greatest part of the night and day When he felt his body faint and weak by trauell he tooke ordinary diet which was a few wilde herbs whilst he eate he said to his body Take heed my body for thou shalt not eate before thou dost faint and for that thou nowe doest eate prepare thee and fall to thy labour By this course he brought his body to such a state that he had nothing on it but skinne and bone The holy hermite was one night at his praiers and he heard the crieng of children the weeping of women the alarums of armies the bleating of sheep the bellowing of bulls the roaring of lions the hissing of serpents and sundry voices of different monsters At the first hearing he was some what affrighted therwith but calling to his mind the craft of the deuill he fell flat on the ground and made the signe of the Crosse And as he looked on either side if with his eis he could discerne what it was that he had heard with his eares the moone shining bright he sawe sodeinly a chariot drawn by furious horses who made a shewe to kick and runne ouer him The holy young man with a zelous and feruent voice called on IESVS and in an instant he sawe the earth to open and to swallow the chariott and ther with departed the noise and fear the chariott made The blesssed man rendered thanks to God saing that which the Israelits said when the red sea ouer whelmed and drownes Pharao and all his hoast Viz Our Lord hath drowned in the sea the horse and the horseman Many other were the temptations where with the deuill did try him Sometimes as he lay resting on the earth to giue a litle repose vnto his afflicted body there was presented before his face naked women an other time when he was mollested with famine there appeared vnto him moste costly tables couered and loden with many delicate viands If he was at his praiers wolfs semed to go about him houling If he song himnes in prais of our Lord he sawe some braule or fray made before him and some of them semed to be dead at his feet seeming to say Burime On time being at his praiers and some what distracted as thinking vpon some thing not belonging to his oraisons there came close to him a grime and stern fellow like vnto those they call Sworde players in Rome and gaue him two terrible kicks on the sides with his feet and then with a whippe lashed him on the shoulder saieng to him Holla what nowe why doest thou sleep and hauing said this laughed out of measure And hauing thus soundly beat him said to him ageine Wilt thou haue a litle barley but Hillarion said not a word vnto him This holy saint from the age of 16. vnto 20. to defend his body from the cold and from the beames of the sunne in the place where he staied vsed the shelter of a litle cottage made of bulrushes and of another prickled herb called Carica from that time afterward he builded a litle Cell which as S. Ierome saith stood vntill his time was 4. foot wide and 5. foote highe so that it was some what lower then he was and some what longer theÌ„ his body was So that it is was more like the graue of a dead body then the lodging of a liuing man It was his vsage to cut the heare of his head once euery yeare and that at Easter He slept vpoÌ„ a bundle of bulrishes laid on the bare ground and had no other bed all the daies of his life He neuer chaunged the sackcloth which he once put on nor euer mended it for he said it was a thing superfluous to seek finenes in a sackcloth He had by hart the greatest part of the holy scripture and after he had said many psalmes and himnes he recited a great part therof by order and alwais continued in deuout and reuerent behauiour for that he considered God allwais present and speaking with him He vsed to alter his diet according to his years in some years he eate lentills steeped in cold water at another time he eate bred only steeped in water with a litle salt at another time herbs and rootes were his only sustenaunce and another season he did eate euery day sixe ounces of barly bread with some litle pittance of sodden herbes when he came to be feeble and weak he put a fewe oliues vpon the herbs and this was dainty meate And thus he spent the time vntill he was 63. years old from this time vnto 80. he would eate no bread nor any other thing but a certein meat made of floweâ— and of stamped herbs mingled together which
had vsed him courteously and he had despised and contemned them in which rage the Iudge commaunded he should be put on the Crosse The executioners were not slowe to execute the cōmandement of the ludge Forthwith the Crosse was brought and Agricola was stripped naked Then layd they him at length vpon the same piercing his handes and feete with sharp nayles they crucifyed him lifting him vp a loft In that place was to be seene a wonderfull and liuely representation of the Lord in his seruant that is to say of CHRIST in Agricola The holie martyr being thus raised on high shewed that he made smalle account of earthlie thinges but desired heauenlie He hauing bene on the Crosse a good space on the same daie that his seruant Vitalis yealded vp his soule vnto God by scourging he rendred vp also his spirit on the Crosse And so the maister and the seruant were equall in theire martyrdome and in theire reward Their bodies were buried in a Churchyard where the Iewes were buried and in that place they remayned as Roses among thornes and light in darknes vntill the time of S. Ambrose as he saith himself writing the story of their martyrdome But he hauing notice of the place where they were at the request of a holie widowe called Iuliana who had particuler and speciall deuotion to these holie saintes took them out of that place and translated them into a Church which the same Iuliana had builded vnto them where their bodies take their repose and rest and their soules expect to be reunited vnto them at the last daye of Iudgment The martyrdome of these holie saintes was on the 4. of Nouember and vpon that daie the Church maketh of them a commemoration This befell in the yeare of our Lord. 298. in the raigne of the Emperour Diocletian Spanish saith The bodies of these holie saintes are said to be in the Roiall monasterie of S. Maria Naxara in Spaine The foure Crovvned THe Apostle S◠Paul writing vnto Timothie his disciple saith None shal be crowned but he which fighteth lawfully which is asmuch as if he had said He that fighteth acording vnto the apointement of his captaine such a one moriteth the crowne and to triumph Amongst the Romaines in their warres some did worthy and very notable exploites but because some were against the apointement of the captaine they did not only depriue them of the crowne of victorie but chasticed them seuerely Some fathers there were which put their owne sonnes vnto death for that they went out to answere a challenger on the contrary part in single combate although he returned with victory and slew his aduersarie honorablie And this because he had bene forbiden Vpon paine of death not to issue out to any such incounter without speciall license Hereby wee se that that souldier only deserued to haue the crowne of triumph which fought and got the victory by the apointement of his Captaine It is conuenient that we imitate IESVS CHRIST euen as these holy martirs imitated him which are called the foure crowned because their names were not knowen These verily did merite the crowne for that they imitated IESVS CHRIST and as he gaue his life for their snakes in like manner did they giue their lifes for his sake The life of these holy martirs and of other fire whose bodies are buried in one and the same Church within the citty of Rome was this taken out of the Martirologes of Venerable Bede and Ado Archbishop of Treuers THe vnsatiable hunger of Dioclesian and Maximian those two great and professed enemies of IESVS CHRIST and his holy saints was not satisfied although by their order and apointement and of others which were their Iudges and presidents there was shed much Christian blood daily through most partes of the world but the more they put to death the more their cruellty encreased It was told vnto Dioclesian that there were in Rome foure citisens Christians whose names were Seuerus Seuerianus Carpoforus and Victorinus The Emperour commaunded that they should be forth with apprehended and led vnto the Idoll of Esculapius and if they refused to worship it that they should be scourged to death and acording to his apointement it was done They were led and conducted vnto that diuell and they made account of him as he was refusing to adore him wherevpon they began to torment them They pulled of their clothes and bound them vnto seuerall pillers The scourging which was giuen them was such and so great that in that torment they yealded vp their soules vnto God The tirant commaunded that their bodies should be cast into the street that the dogges might dououre them and although they remained there fiue daies yet they were not touched by any beast whereby it euidently apeared that men were more cruell and bloody then the very beastes The Christians took vp their bodies and buried them in the Arenarium three miles out of Rome in the Via Lauicana It is said that pope Melchiades who liued shortly after their martirdome put them into the Catalogue of holy martirs and because their names were not knowne he called them The foure Crowned But afterwardes it was reuealed to a holy man that their names as is said before were Seuerus Seuerianus Carpoforus and Victorinus Of the fiue Martirs SS Claudius Nicostratus Simphorianus Castorius and Simplicius NEERE vnto the place where the foure martirs last spoken of were buried there had bene laid two yeares before but on the same daie the bodies of fiue other holie saints who in like manner had bene put to death for the faith of CHRIST by comandement of the same Emperour Dioclesian Pope Melchiades who ordeined the feast of the foure crowned to be celebrated entended that together with them there should be a commemoration of these fiue martirs which were called Claudius Nicostratus Simphorianus Castorius and Simplicius These holy saintes were caruers and remained in Hungarie by the apointment of the Emperour and wrought together with many other of their trade in the quarries of marble which the Emperour vsed in his buildings in diuers places of the world Foure of these blessed men were Christians and Simplicius was an Idolater As the wrought together the Chizells and other tooles of Simplicius were oftentimes broken and the tooles of the others did neuer break Simplicius being much amased hereat demanded of Simphorianus how it fell so out and he made answere my tooles break not for that euery time I take any of them into my hand to work I call vpon IESVS CHRIST my God vpon this occasion Simphorianus vsed such perswasions vnto Simplicius that by the help of God he was conuerted vnto the Christian faith and was Baptised It fell out afterward that Dioclesian gaue the charge vnto these fiue blessed saintes of a building in which they should set the statues of diuers liuing beastes and in the midest of them an Idoll of one of his heathenish Gods The holie saintes made vp
rather to die then to deny my Lord CHRIST I am a Christian and therefore expect not that I will sacrifice vnto the diuells The Iudg was so wroth with this answere that he caused calthropes to be set thick on the ground the blessed martir to be dragged and haled ouer them In this torment the holie saint said Seek out other tortures for these be of too smalle force to make me worship thy diuells Pirrhus being now more enraged said Beat him with cudgells and knotted thongs of leather and buffet him on the face till he cease to call our Gods by the names of diuells But all these things preuailed not to make the valiant souldier of CHRIST shew any signe of feare or yeelding There was present a noble man of the court called Eliodorus who said vnto Pirrhus my Lord these Christians be a people which regard no torments yea death is more welcome vnto them then life Do not vexe nor trouble thy self any more with this man but giue iudgment of death vpon him as he hath well deserued for that he hath abandoned his captaine and refused to serue in the warres Thâ—n Pirrhus said vnto Menna If thou wilt resolue to sacrifice vnto the Gods I will cause thy captaine to pardon thy former offence and to giue thee more honorable office and degrees Menna said God forbid that I should desire such offices and honors I desire to haue them in heauen where true honor is to be had not those of the world which be vaine and transitorie The president seing the constancy of the blessed martir by the aduise of the other courtiers coÌ„demned him to die with these words Because Menna the souldier doth not obey the proclamation of the Emperours and because he followeth the religion of the Christians and will not sacrifice vnto our Gods we comaund that he be beheaded that others by his example may feare to comitt the like trespasses The blessed martir was led by the officers vnto a place called Potemia vnto which all the cittie was assembled The holie saint with a cheerefull countenance though meanely apparelled as making smalle account of any worldly thing went comunicating with some of his acquaintance as if he had not bene going vnto death Recomending them vnto God and taking leaue of them he lifted his eies toward heauen saying I blesse and praise thee o father eternall for that thou hast hitherto kept me and hast not turned thy face from me Thou hast giuen me strength that I should not loose my soule with this treacherous and faithles people but that I might confesse constantly thy blessed name and thy holie lawe I beseech thee through IESVS CHRIST thy sonne that thou wilt help me at this houre of death and deliuer my soule in granting it victorie in this last assault that it may appeere free before thy iudgment seat and there worship thee Saying this he came to the place of execution where falling on his knees and looking toward heauen the hangman cut of his head Then they cast his bodie into a great fire but the fire consumed it not so that some deuout persons took it and buried it in a place conuenient whither many Christians resorted crauing mercy at Gods hands by the praiers and merits of this his faithfull seruant Menna Who was of Egipt honorablie borne iust faithfull mild and vertuous and replenished with the grace of the Holie Ghost He was martired in the cittie of Cottieum in the prouince of Phrigia on the. 11. of Nouember in the yeere of our Lord 301. Spa saith 296. And on the same daie the Church maketh of him a commemoration The bodie of this holie saint was after ward translated vnto Constantinople The life of S. Martin Pope and Martyr THE noble king Dauid would not giue leaue 2. Râ—g 2 nor permit one of his souldiers to kill his father in lawe Saul when he might easily haue done it and theother well deserued it coming to pursue and search him out with an army and a full intention to kill him if he could haue gotten him within his daunger And though Dauid found him fast a sleep in his pauilion and in like maner all his guard who should haue watched in his defence yet would he not once touch him The reason which Dauid alleaged was because Saul was the anointed of the Lord. It happened farre otherwise vnto the glorious S. Martin Pope and martir who being annointed and consecrated and moreouer the vicar and lieutenant of CHRIST in earth yet some Christians in name but in their deeds worse then Pagans were so bold as to take him and vse him villanously as may appeare by his life collected out of the book of Poper lifes called Pontificall and out of other good Authors SAINT Martin the first Pope of that name was the sonne of one Fabritius and borne in Todi a city in Tuscane a very holy man and vertuous Assoone as he was elected to the gouernment of the Church he emploied all his vttermost dilligence endeuor to extirpat roote out some heresies about the person of IESVS CHRIST already condemned in former Councells The man who did bring them againe out of hell where they had bene a good space buried into the world was a Patriarch of Constantinople called Paulus who had some other prelaâ—s that abbetted him and were wrapped in the same error These wonne th'emperour Constans the second of that name to be of their sect and opinion such sleights and deuises they wrought with him The legats of the Pope who resided there certefied him of the proceedings of Paulus the Patriarch The Pope incontinent apointed by his letters what order should be taken therin and wrot vnto the same Paulus louing letters beseeching him not to be so determinately stubborne in ruynating the peace of the Church and in patronizing of his errors so many times condemned by the holy prelats ingreat assembles and generall Councells Paulus being by nature proud and obstinate to shew what small accouÌ„t he made of the Popes aduertisements caused an Aultar which the legats had set vp in the Church founded by Placida vpon which they said masse after the Roman vse to be cast to the ground and defaced The malice of Paulus was so much augmented that because the legats on the Popes behalf required him when they sawe his obstinacy to amend his fault and reforme his errors or els they would proceed against him as a contumacious person by the censures of the Church he made meanes to th'emperour to cause the legats to be restrained of their liberty and euill entreated and afterward he sent them into banishment into sondry parts of Christendome which was as if he had sent trompets to sound and publish the malignity of the Patriarch the tiranny of th'emperour and the misbelief of them both being obstinate in the error condemned by all the Catholike Church when Pope Martin had vnderstanding thereof he had recourse vnto the ordinary remedies in the