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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 49, 5 December 1901, Page 5

St. Peter, Burnamed Chrysologu^ on account of his oloquenc« was born at Iraola and baptised by Bishop Cornelius, from whom he also received his ecclesiastical training and ordination to the deaoonate. After studying the spirit of Asceticism in a monastery he waa consecrated Bishop of Ravenna by Pope Sixtas 111., in 433., By his ever watchful solicitude, his untiring practice of prayer, and his constant fidelity to the duties of his office, he was a shining disciple of the Good Shepherd. His method of life was that of an ordinary priest, and he labored Ruccessf ully in converting 1 the pagans, as well as in combating the Manijhean, Novatian, Pelagian, and Neatorian errors. By word and example he encouraged the practice of Christian virtue, and in his sermons freely denounced prevailing rices, and exhorted the Faithful to avert, by works of penance, the divine chastisement. The Arohmandrite Eutyches, who was trying to win supporters for his new heresy in the West, he entreated to submit to the authority of the Pope, 'because through him St. Peter, who continues to sit in the Chair of Rome, makes known the true faith to the sincere inquirer ' St. ChrysologUß was on intimate terms with Pope Leo I. He died and was burried at Imola.