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Pepin of Landen, upon the river Geete, in Brabant, was a lover ofpeace, the constant defender of truth and justice, a true friend to alls His unspotted purity ofheart, his ardent zeal, and the practice of all Christian virtues,prepared him, from his {435} youth, for the episcopal dignity, and thecrown of martyrdom. They had promised eachother, if possible, to die together; and they begged it of God, as afavor, that they might both suffer the same torments. Ontraditions received by the church from the apostles he writes asfollows: (Hom.

But the deacons, Tertius andPomponius, who assisted us, obtained, by money, that we might pass somehours in a more commodious part of the prison to refresh ourselves. and Annal. The reign of her son Ethelred was weak andunfortunate, and the source of the greatest miseries to the kingdom,especially from the Danes. de la France, t.