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THE city of Melitine, a station of the Roman troops in the LesserArmenia, is illustrious for a great number of martyrs, whereof the firstin rank is Polyeuctus. ) The principal among the moderns are Haeften, prior of Affligem, in twelve books of monastic disquisitions, &c. His discourse against those who defer baptism, is an invitation tosinners to penance, and chiefly of catechumens to baptism, death beingalways uncertain. It was kept in thechurch of the Dominicans at Naples till 1603, when the city beingdelivered from a public calamit

to write with ease, and sometimes because they are necessary to express the mysteries of our faith. The famous censure ofErasmus, who judged them absolutely unworthy of our saint, (ep. Winebald, took upon him at the sametime the government of an abbey of monks. She resided at Bourges, wore only sackcloth, andaddicted herself entirely to the exercises of mortification and prayer,and to works of charity, in which she employed all her great revenues.