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Principia, about the end ofAugust, in 410, but her name occurs in the Roman Martyrology on the 31stof January. Almost all, as if it were by commonconspiracy, throw themselves into the gulf, where the multitude ofcompanions will be no comfort. Devotion also and zeal tohonor God by every observance prescribed by his law, prompted Mary toperform this act of religion, though evidently exempt from the precept. The piousemperor, finding his army much inferior to that of his adversary, causedthis servant of God to be consulted concerning the success of the waragainst Maximus.