Besides the polemical and spiritual works of St. John, notcontent to sell what little stock he was master of to relieve them, wentto day-labor at the public works, to earn all he could for theirsubsistence. In the process for hiscanonization, the scrutiny relating to his life and virtues is happilyfinished; and Benedict XIV. SOPHRONIUS, PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM, C.
Athis request, St. Seleucus, an eye-witness of this victory, was heard by the soldiersapplauding the martyr's resolution; and being brought before thegovernor, he, without more ado, ordered his head to be struck off. ate the wonderful spectacle and glorious actions of themartyrs: the tyrants and judges were not able to expres If his speculations are sometimes spun fine, and his divisions run to niceties, this was the fault of the age in which he lived, an
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