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SALAMIS, a City of the Isle of Cyprus. St. Paul came thither along with St. Barnabas, in the forty-fourth Year of the vulgar Era, and there converted Sergius Paulus. Salamis is now call’d Famagousta. In the Year of Christ 488, the Body of St. Barnabas was there found. He was a Native1 of the Isle of Cyprus, and was buried there.
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Exod. xix. 6. 1 Pet. ii. 9. Deut. vii. 6. xiv. 2, 21. ↩
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