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INNOCENT, bishop of Rome, was very anxious, as appears by
his former letter, to procure the recall of John. He sent five
bishops and two presbyters of the Roman church, with the bishops who
had been delegated as ambassadors to him from the East, to the
emperors Honorius and Arcadius, to request the convocation of a
council, and solicit them to name time and place. The enemies of
John at Constantinople framed a charge as though these things were
done to insult the Eastern emperor, and caused the ambassadors to be
ignominiously dismissed as if they had invaded a foreign government.
John was at the same time condemned by an imperial edict to a remoter
place of banishment, and soldiers were sent to conduct him to Pityus;
the soldiers were soon on hand, and effected the removal. It is said
that during this journey, Basiliscus, the martyr, appeared to him at
Comani, in Armenia, and apprised him of the day of his death.
Being attacked with pain in the head, and being unable to bear the
heat of the sun, he could not prosecute his journey, but closed his
life in that town.
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