{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>There was a fellow-townsman of ours at Hippo, Florentius,\r\nan old man, religious and poor, who supported himself as a\r\ntailor. Having lost his coat, and not having means to buy\r\nanother, he prayed to the Twenty Martyrs,<a id=\"FNanchor_980_980\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_980_980\">[980]</a> who have a very\r\ncelebrated memorial shrine in our town, begging in a distinct\r\nvoice that he might be clothed. Some scoffing young men,\r\nwho happened to be present, heard him, and followed him\r\nwith their sarcasm as he went away, as if he had asked the\r\nmartyrs for fifty pence to buy a coat. But he, walking on in\r\nsilence, saw on the shore a great fish, gasping as if just cast\r\nup, and having secured it with the good-natured assistance of\r\nthe youths, he sold it for curing to a cook of the name of\r\nCatosus, a good Christian man, telling him how he had come\r\nby it, and receiving for it three hundred pence, which he laid\r\nout in wool, that his wife might exercise her skill upon, and\r\nmake into a coat for him. But, on cutting up the fish, the\r\ncook found a gold ring in its belly; and forthwith, moved\r\nwith compassion, and influenced, too, by religious fear, gave it\r\nup to the man, saying, \"See how the Twenty Martyrs have\r\nclothed you.\"</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-769"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2170a0db9364efeba251dbc2560bb39398edf1f289d40bf9e0ca14c5f80fdb97","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_980_980","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_980_980","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_980_980\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_980_980\"><span class=\"label\">[980]</span></a> Augustine's 325th sermon is in honour of these martyrs.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_980_980","text_sha256":"02dff387b497b17bb9422d94d40ad02559b72f9e4f9cdca176e264535c657555","verified":false,"work_id":null}