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288 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY. favour with the emperors, and well known to all for his noble birth and his wealth. As he was present at the death of the abovementioned martyr ; taking up the corpse, he bore him on his shoulder in a splendid and costly dress, and covering it in a magnificent manner, committed it to a decent burial. Many other facts are stated of the man by his friends, who have lived to the present times. CHAPTER XVII. The miracles of our Saviour at Paneas. AMONG these there was the following remarkable occurrence. At Cesarea Philippi, which is called Paneas by the Phoenicians, they say there are springs that are shown there, at the foot of the mountain called Panrus, from which the Jordan rises ; and that on a certain festival day there was usually a victim thrown into these, and that this, by the power of the daemon, in some wonderful manner entirely disappeared. The thing was a fa mous wonder to all that were there to see it. Astyrius happen ing to be once present at these rites, and seeing the multitude astonished at the affair, pitied their delusion. Then raising his eyes to heaven, he implored the God over all through Christ, to refute this seducing daemon, and to restrain the delusion of the people. As soon as he prayed, it is said that the victim floated on the stream, and that thus this miracle vanished, no wonder ever more occurring in this place. CHAPTER XVIII. The statue erected by the woman having an hemorrhage. BUT as we have mentioned this city,! I do not think it right to pass by a narrative that also deserves to be recorded for posterity^ They say that the woman who had an issue of blood, mentioned