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Adrian having died after a reign of twenty-one years, was succeeded
in the government of the Romans by Antoninus, called the Pious. In
the first year of his reign Telesphorus died in the eleventh year of
his episcopate, and Hyginus became bishop of Rome. Irenaeus records
that Telesphorus' death was made glorious by martyrdom, and in the
same connection he states that in the time of the above-mentioned
Roman bishop Hyginus, Valentinus, the founder of a sect of his
own, and Cerdon, the author of Marcion's error, were both well
known at Rome. He writes as follows:
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