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was powerless, entreated that he might be baptized, and the apostle Thomas came and baptized him in the name of the Persons of the Trinity. Enraged at the defeat of the magician, Dadianus next ordered that George should be broken on the wheel, and when this was done the frag- ments of his body were thrown into a dry pit. And straightway there were earthquakes and lightnings, and- Christ came down with His angels and commanded Michael to gather together the fragments of George’s body and to” bring them up ont of the pit. Christ then reconstructed his body, and filed him with joy. After George had been thus raised from the dead at the request of Magnentius the governor of Armenia he wrought a miracle, and made the wooden legs of seventy scats to take root, and to put: forth leaves, and to bear both blossom and fruit. This wonderful thing Dadianus ascribed to the power of his: gods; and he continued to torture George with every con- ceivable act of ernelty, until at last he destroyed him by sawing him in twain and by boiling him to death in a cauldron of pitch, sulphur and tar. The cauldron which contained hig rethains was then buried deep down in the earth, but Christ came down with His angels, and raised him up from the dead a second time. After George had been raised from the dead a second time he wrought four miracles. I He raised to life the dead ox of a woman called Cholastike, or Schollastike; II he raised to life some men and women who had been dead and buried for more- than two hundred years; IIL he caused the pillar of the poor widow woman’s bousc to take root and become a
