Verse 60
60. With a loud voice Literally, with a great voice; just as (Acts 7:57) they had shouted with a great voice. The clear prayer of the martyr now outrings the loud curse of his murderers.
Lay not… their charge Beneath the gazing eye of his Lord and Master the confessor utters the same prayer as was uttered from the cross, for mercy, upon his destroyers. This was a new spirit and a new prayer in this dark world. Well did he show that his words of rebuke were not words of hate, but uttered by loving lips.
Fell asleep Tranquil as a pure calm in the midst of a great storm.
Thus triumphantly fell the first of “the glorious army of martyrs,” presenting a model example for the whole illustrious line. It is one of the most beautiful, if not most truthful, of legends, that the blessed mother of Jesus, standing upon a rock on the other side of the valley, watched with solemn interest the issues of the bloody scene.
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