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The AbyfTinians immediately transferred the name of this 

 prince into their catalogue of Saints, and he is called St 

 Claudius in that country to this day. Though endowed 

 with every other virtue that entitled him to his place in the 

 kalendar, he feems to have wanted one — that of dying im 

 charity "with his enemies. 



This battle was fought on the 22d March 1559 ; and the- 

 victory gained by Nur was a complete one. The king and> 

 moil of his principal officers were flain ; great part of the 

 army taken prifoners, the reft difperfed, and the camp plun- 

 dered ; fo that no Moorifh general had ever returned home 

 with the glory that he did. But afterwards, in his beha- 

 viour, he exhibited a fpeclacle more memorable, and that 

 did him more honour than the victory itfelf ; for, when he 

 drew near to Adel, he clothed himfelf in poor attire like a 

 common foldier, and bare-headed, mounted on an ordina- 

 ry mule, with an old faddle and tattered accoutrements, 

 he forbade the fongs and praife with which it is ufual to 

 meet conquerors in that country when returning with vic- 

 tory from the field. He declined alfo all fliare in the fuc- 

 cefs of that day, declaring that the whole of it was due to 

 God alone, to whofe mercy and immediate interpofition he 

 owed the deftmction of the Chriftian army. 



The unworthy and unfortunate John Bermudes having, 

 arrived in P; rtugal from India, continued there till his 

 death ; and, in the infeription over his tomb, is called only 

 Patriarch of Alexandria. Yet it is clear, from the hiilory of thefe 

 times, that he was firft ordained by the old patriarch Mar- 

 cus ; and that the pope, Paul III. only confirmed the ordi- 

 nation of this heretical fchifmaticai prelate, though we have 



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