the holy brothers, John and Paul, to his idolatry,
but when he could not entice these great servants of God
to his court, nor persuade them to his heathenism,
then he sent to them a certain heathen man,
called Terentianus, who had with him
a golden image, and said to the servants of God,
Our lord Julian commandeth you to pray
to this image, or I must slay you both.'
Then said the saints, 'We know no God
save the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost;
from this Holy Trinity thy lord hath apostatized,
and desireth to entice others to perdition with himself.'
Lo then! Terentianus commanded men to behead secretly
the two brothers, and to bury them in their house.
Then was Julian, for his cruelty,
soon after this, slain at Saint Mary's hest.
and Christianity flourished, and those saints were made known,
so that madmen were healed
in the same house wherein the saints lay,
and Terentianus' son, filled with a black devil,
ran to their burial-place, awfully raving,
and the father immediately sought the sepulchres,
and confessed his sin, in .that he had slain the saints,
and was baptized, and his son became in his right mind,
to the praise of the Saviour who liveth for ever. AMEN.
VIII.
FEBRUARY V. SAINT AGATHA, VIRGIN.
There was a certain noble maiden named Agatha
in the province of Sicily, wise and faithful,
at the time when Quintianus, the murderous persecutor,
