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Chapter LXII.
Alexander,2476
bishop of Cappadocia, desiring to
visit the Holy Land, came to Jerusalem, at the time when Narcissus,
bishop of this city, already an old man, ruled the church. It was
revealed to Narcissus and many of his clergy, that on the morning of
the next day, a bishop would enter the city, who should be assistant on
the sacerdotal throne. And so it came to pass, as it was predicted, and
all the bishops of Palestine being gathered together, Narcissus himself
being especially urgent, Alexander took with him the helm of the church
of Jerusalem. At the end of one of his epistles, written to the
Antinoites On the peace of the church, he says “Narcissus,
who held the bishopric here before me, and now with me exercises his
office by his prayers, being about a hundred and sixteen years old,
salutes you, and with me begs you to become of one mind.” He
wrote another also To the Antiocheans, by the hand of Clement,
the presbyter of Alexandria, of whom we spoke above, another also To
Origen, and In behalf of Origen against Demetrius, called
forth by the fact that, according to the testimony of Demetrius, he had
made Origen presbyter. There are other epistles of his to different
persons. In the seventh persecution under Decius, at the time when
Babylas of Antioch was put to death, brought to Cæsarea and shut
up in prison, he received the crown of martyrdom for confessing
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