George, foreseeing an incursion, and finding that the farmers and peasants could not be induced by others to take warning, and flee in time, went round the country, cross in hand, and urged all to escape within the walls. The threatened incursion took place, and the Saracens, not being in sufficient force to take the city, retired without having done serious damage. [60] See further, S. Sigebert, (February 1st.) [61] He was Bishop of Trèves about 622, and is honoured as a saint on May 22nd. [62] He became afterwards Bishop of Trèves, and is venerated on July 5th. [Illustration] February 22. S. PETER'S CHAIR _at Antioch_, A.D. 37. S. ARISTION, _at Salamis, 1st cent._ S. PAPIAS, _B. of Hierapolis, in Phrygia, beginning of 2nd cent._ SS. MARTYRS _in Arabia, circ._ A.D. 304. S. PASCHASIUS, _B. of Vienne, circ._ A.D. 313. SS. THALASSIUS AND LIMNÆUS, _HH. near Cyrus, in Syria, 5th cent._ S. BARADATUS, _H. in Syria, circ._ A.D. 460. S. MAXIMIAN, _B. of Ravenna_, A.D. 556. S. MARGARET of _Cortona, Pen._, A.D. 1297. S. PETER'S CHAIR AT ANTIOCH. (A.D. 37.) [Roman Martyrology; the ancient Roman Martyrology, called that of S. Jerome; Bede; Ado; Usuardus, &c.] Under this name is celebrated the foundation of the see of Antioch by S. Peter the Apostle, before he went to Rome, so that this day may be called the birthday of the Church and Patriarchate of Antioch. Through the coincidence of this Christian festival with some ancient pagan solemnities, its observance has become surrounded by spurious usages, at least among the Northern races. These usages were so rooted into the habits of the people, that the Church, unable to eradicate them, sought to give them a Christian significance, and to substitute the feast of the Chair of S. Peter for the _cara cognitio_ celebrated by the pagans of the Teutonic races on this day. This heathen festival was a commemoration of deceased relations by a great banquet, called in Flanders the _dadsisas_, or death-wake, on the 27th Feb., the day on which, in the North of Europe, the year was supposed to begin. S. ARISTION, DISCIPLE OF CHRIST. (1ST CENT.) [Latin Martyrology. S. Aristion is not mentioned in the Greek Menæa. No Acts exist, but he is mentioned in the Apocryphal Acts of S. Barnabas. The Apocryphal Synopsis of the 72 Disciples, by Dorotheus of Tyre, does not mention S. Aristion, but S. Jerome mentions him in his Ecclesiastical Writers, c. 18; and Papias quoted by Eusebius, lib. iii., c. 39.]