The Chair of S. Peter in the Vatican.
FOOTNOTES:
[61] Vita, ex duobus veteribus MSS., Bolland. II. p. 83
[62] He is said to have been born at Coma, near Heracleia, in Middle Egypt, A. D. 251.
[63] Seemingly the Greek language and literature.
[64] a.d. 301. Galerius Valerius Maximinus (his real name was Daza) had been a shepherd-lad in Illyria, like his uncle Galerius Valerius Maximianus; and rose, like him, through the various grades of the army to be co-Emperor of Rome, over Syria, Egypt, and Asia Minor; a furious persecutor of the Christians, and a brutal and profligate tyrant. Such were the "kings of the world" from whom those old monks fled.