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TRACTS FOR THE TIMES.

years. O Lord God of Heaven and Earth, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for the sake of Thee and Thy law, and for Thy honour, I suffer this, and yield my neck to the slaughter. Receive my spirit, O Lord, out of this dying world; for Thou art the Living God, invincible and eternally glorious, world without end. Amen.

Having finished his prayer, he was led away by the soldiers, and in that same place, namely, in Nola, he was beheaded, on the 18th of the calends of Feb. [January 15, ccciv.]