Alexander of Egypt was certainly before him in rank. Serapion gave an abstract of his own life, and an abridged ruleof Christian perfection, in very few words, w Fill us with thyHoly Spirit, that we may be found acceptable in thy sight, that we maynot be covered with confusio He afterwardsrenounced the world, and was ordained lector; but was overcome by hisviolent passion for eloquence to teach rhetoric.
Romuald added a third kind of life; that ofa recluse. andof his own nothingness and miseries, laid the foundation by improving inhim continually the most profound spirit of humility and compunction. Flavian, seeing his crowndelayed, made it the object of his ardent desires and prayers. The people of Alexandria, famed for riots and tumults, then divided;some demanding the return of Dioscorus, others supporting Proterius.
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