Many resorted to him forspiritual advice, whom he exceedingly comforted and edified by his holydiscourses. s sects of idolatryand superstition reign among the people, a persecution was raisedagainst the Christians in 1713. Andrew,where the former remains to this day; but the latter has been removedthence to St. He preached the Lent at Grenoble, in 1617, and again in 1618, withhis usual conquests of souls; converting many Calvinists, and amongthese the duke of Lesdiguieres.
These relies are now in a church at Rome called Sant' Apassara: this word being corrupted by the Italians from Abbacyrus. Thefaith had declined at Tournay ever since St. Being summoned againbefore the judge, he professed his faith with greater resolution andalacrity than before, and was immediately led away just as he was, andbeheaded. Her virtue prepared her tomake a glorious confession of her faith before the persecutors, afterthe publication of the cruel edicts of Dioclesian and Maximian againstthe Christians.
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