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BARSES, whose fame is now great not only in his own city of
Edessa, and in neighbouring towns, but in Phoenicia, in Egypt,
and in the Thebaid, through all which regions he had travelled with a
high reputation won by his great virtue, had been relegated by Valens
to the island of Aradus, but when the emperor learnt that innumerable
multitudes streamed thither, because Barses was full of apostolic
grace, and drove out sicknesses with a word, he sent him to
Oxyrynchus in Egypt; but there too his fame drew all men to him, and
the old man, worthy of heaven, was led off to a remote castle neat the
country of the barbarians of that district, by name Pheno. It is
said that in Aradus his bed has been preserved to this day, where it
is held in very great honour, for many sick persons lie down upon it
and by means of their faith recover.
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