Sylvanus, bishop of Emisa, in Phoenicia, was,some time after, under Maximinus, devoured by wild beasts in the midstof his own city, with two companions, after having governed that churchforty years. This sickness, which was the greatest of calamitiesto the pagans, was but an exercise and trial to the Chris He admires that perfect gratitude with which shealways received God's grace, and her perfect fidelity in correspondingwith it, and advancing in s Underthe succeeding popes, John the sixth and seventh, Sisinnius, andConstantine, he was treasurer of the church, and afterwards librarykeeper, and was charged with several important commissions.
and gold, for a poor veil and a coarsehabit, and resigned herself into the hands of her superior, to live onlyto Christ. Antony and St. See Tillemont and Ceillier. Lupicinus, hisbrother, came to him some time after in company with others, who werefollowed by several more, drawn by the fame of the virtue and miraclesof these two saints.
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