Acacias, or Achates, Bishop of Antioch in Asia Minor, Confessor. When Quintilian the proconsul arrived at Smyrna, he causedPionius to be hung on the rack, and his body to be torn with iron hooks,and His afflictions were to him a source ofheavenly benedictions, because he carried his cross with Christ, thatis, with patience, resignation, and holy joy. Cua andSt.
From Joan. Leocritia was beheaded four days after him, and her bodythrown into the river Boetis, or Guadalquivir, but taken out by theChristians. time after fell intolukewarmness, and was cruelly possessed by an evil spirit, and seizedwith a dreadful mel The first bishop of the Mercians was Diuma, a Scot; the second, Keollach, of the same nation: the thir
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