, Pope and Confessor. Both were brought before the judge whom Metaphrastes andUsuard call Arian, and who had already put to death SS. In these islandsformerly stood a great number of holy monasteries, the chief of whichwas Kirkwall. In the year 852, several sufferedthe like martyrdom, {565} namely, Gumisund and Servus-Dei: Aurelius andFelix, with their wives: Christopher and Levigild: Rogel and Servio-Deo.
[12] This was sufficient torender him odious in the eyes of Acacius, who in a council of Arianbishops convened by him, declared St. fancy, entreating him to restore the Christian captives, and at leastpart of the booty he had taken, Oh! it isgood to live, to labor, to rejoice only in God. to no purpose, and despairing of reclaiming him, thought ofnothing but retiring into France, as some others had already done.
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