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SINCE the persecution had recently ceased, many excellent
Christians, and many of the confessors who had survived, adorned the
churches: among these were Hosius, bishop of Cordova; Amphion,
bishop of Epiphania in Cilicia; Maximus, who succeeded Macarius in
the church of Jerusalem; and Paphnutius, an Egyptian. It is said
by this latter God wrought many miracles, controlling demons, and
giving him grace to heal divers kinds of sickness. this Paphnutius,
and Maximus, whom we just mentioned, were among the number of
confessors whom Maximinus condemned to work in the mines, after having
deprived them of the right eye, and the use of the left leg.
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