The saint continuedto support his desolate churches, till, in 849, the see of Bremenbecoming vacant, pope Nicholas united it to that of Hamburg, andappointed him bishop of both. Novatians, with all theirambition for it, could never obtain, nor ever be known but by the nameof Novatians. Senan, Bishop and Confessor. Usher's Antiqu.
All this while theexecutioners continued to tear his body with stripes, while his handswere bound behind him, and his feet squeezed in the woodstocks, calledthe Nervus. 14, in Acta. They never used any wine, (the common drink of the country,)except for mass, or in sickness: they went barefoot, used disciplines,mad nt Iura, between France and Switzerland, and fixed his abode at aplace called Condate, at the conflux of the rivers Bienne
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