But observe well our faces, that you may knowthem again at that terrible day when all men shall be judged. See Capgrave, Harpsfield, Wharton,Brown-Willis, D. of the MostHigh, still remaining a most pure virgin: nor would God have otherwiseraised her to this astonishing honor. We then joyfully returned toour prison; and as my infant had been used to the breast, I immediatelysent Pomponius, the deacon, to demand him of my father, who refused tosend him.
Her festival, on account ofvarious translations of her relics, is marked on several days of theyear, but the principal is kept in most places on the day of her death. {398}THE EMPRESS THEODORA. HE was born in the country of Hy-Conalls, in Ireland, in the latter partof the fifth century, was a disciple of Egypt, so {475} that, in a veryshort time, he had reduced himself to the necessity of laboring for hisdaily food.
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