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, made him one of the seven deacons of the church at Rome,who assisted the pope. The five homilies On the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, were alsopreached at Constantinople, (t. Heenlarged on all the circumstances of his life by pious affection, andmeditations. He died at Inde,with extraordinary tranquillity and cheerfulness, on the 11th ofFebruary, 821, being then about seventy-one years of age, and was buriedin the same monastery, since called St.

Eightdays after the saint was admonished by God of the end of his mortalcourse, after which he most earnestly sighed. The easternchurches were wretchedly divided and shattered by the Nestorians, andthe numerous spawn of the Eutychians, all which he repressed. His relics were found in 1626 atKeiserswerdt, in a silver shrine, together with those of St. SAINT BENJAMIN, DEACON, M.