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hat he might comfort and succor the poor slavesthere, not without hopes of meeting with the crown of martyrdom. Athanasius, patriarch of the Jacobites orEutychians, in Syria, acknowledged two distinct natures in Christ, thedivine and the human; but allowed only one will. Though he was careful to keep up exact discipline in hisdiocese, he was more inclined to indulgence than rigor, in imitation ofthe tenderness which Jesus Christ showed for sinners. Heconfesses, for his humiliation, that, among other temptations, he felt agreat desire to see again his own country, and to visit the saints o

But it seems, from his Confession, that hewas ordained deacon, priest, and bishop, for his mission in his owncountry. Serapion gave an abstract of his own life, and an abridged ruleof Christian perfection, in very few words, w William of Tocco adds, thatas the saint was coming out of St. It was owing to his zeal that not one of his flock renouncedChrist by sacrificing to idols during the persecution of Decius, aweakness which several of the Marcionite heretics had betrayed.