Prolicionycion [sic]

¶ Capitulum 23

UAleryanus with his sonne galyenus regned fyften yere· Fyrst· he worshiped soo holy sayntes that me trowyd that his hows hadde be goddes owne chirch. But afterward he was apeyred by one that was a wytche and bygan to hate the fayth of crystē men / thenne he biganne to poursue cristen men· And god¦des helpe was soo by mone hym that he was taken of sapor kyng of perce And his eyen were putte oute· And he was holden in a dispytous bondage to his lyues ende· Soo that he sholde stoupe to grounde And the kyng sholde sette his fote on his bak whan he shold lepe to hors / Aboute that yere decius that hyghte galyen{us} wax cruel and sterne / And paule the fyrst heremyte wente in to wyldernes and lyued there vnknowen lx yere to geder as Ierom wryteth in vitas patrum / ¶After lucius stephen was pope thre yere / he ordeygned that mynystres of holy chirche sholde not were holy vestymentes in the comyn vse of euery daye: this stephen was slayne whyle he saide his masse / the second ciprianus was fyrst a man of lawe and a pletar an•• afterward a preeste / and atte last he was bisshop of cartage and was martred the same daye that cornelius the pope was martred but not the same yere Aft••r that stephen was martred sixtus was p••pe two yere / he

••edeygned that men sholde synge a masse vpon an Aulter and was afterward martred with felicissimus & Agapitus in deci{us} tyme so sayth the martiloge that is better to byleue than crony∣kes of Auctours that ben not knowen / For galyenus thempe∣rour hete decius also ¶This sixtus went in to spayne in a time and fonde there two yonglynges vyncent and laurence that we¦re his owne cosyns and were wel thewed and manerd. He to¦ke hede of hem and brought hem •• with hym to Rome· And lau∣rence abode with hym at Rome and vyncent went agayne in to spayne And was martred afterward in dacianus the Iuges tyme / After that sixtus was martred / denys a monk was pope six yere· he departed paryshes and chirche yerdes / And assygned to eueryche parysshe a preeste / After denys felix was pope foure yete / Eugenia prothus and iacinctus were thenne martred at Rome / that tyme gregorius nazauzenus was in his flour••s / He was bisshop in constantinople in grece Two bretheren germa∣yns strofe for a ponde that had plente of fysshe and by his pra¦yers the ponde waxed drye and bere corn•• and fruyte ¶ Also a chirche shold be buylded in a place but the place was to scarce and to narowe for in the eest side was a grete roche and a grete Ryuer in the weste side / And gregory prayde in a nyghte / And on the morn it was founden that the roche was withdrawen a•• fer as it neded & so there was a place large ynough for to make & bylde a chirche / also in another tyme in wynter he passed the al¦pes and he must wende by Appolyns temple / but whan he was goon fro the temple the preest of the tēple that was wōt to gete moche good by answers that the maumett gaf gate no more / for the mawmet gaf none answer / And the preest offred sacryfyce bysyly / and it was sayd him in his sl••pe that Appollo delphic{us} was put oute by the comyng of gregory And he myght not co∣me ageyne withoute leue of gregory ¶ Whan the preest herde that. anone he wente to gregory and purchaced a letter of hym in these wordes / Gregory sendeth gretynge to Appolyn / I suffre the to torne agayne in to thy place and doo as thou were wont to doo this letter was set vp in Appolyns temple / And Appo∣lyn yaue answer as he was wonte· Whan the preest sawe that he wente to gregory and prayd hym that he wolde make hym a cry¦sten man And atte last whan gregory was dede he was bisshoppe after hym / ¶ Claudius the seconde regned one yere & somwhat of monethes ¶ Ones he ouercome the gothes and deyde. After

him his broder quintilius r••gned by ass••nte of knyghtes / and was slayn the xv day in Aquila ¶ After that felyx the pope was martred euticianus was pope six yere / he ordeyned that the first fruytes shold be blessyd vpon the aucter. Also he buryed thre honderd and sixty martres with his owne honde