See Chatelain, notes on the Rom. SIMEON was the son of Cleophas, otherwise called Alpheus, brother toSt. She was of a rich and illustrious family, andhaving been consecrated to God from her tender years, triumphed overmany assaults upon her chastity. 19, 22, 28, &c.
The peaceable reignof Nerva lasted only fifteen months. Chrysostom represents toStagirius that his trials had cured his former vanity, anger, and sloth,and it was owing to them that he now spent nights and days in fasting,prayer, and reading. Gregory Nazianzen in the year immediatelyfollowing it; by St. ALCIMUS ECDITIUS AVITUS was of a senatorian Roman family, but bornin Auvergne.
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