You bid me, says he, believe thatthough I see you converse with a virgin, this is a work of piety, notpassion. temper severity with mildness, and encourages him zealously to fulfilthe obligations of his charge; for nothing is g th the holy ark and the tables of thelaw, but for an immortal soul, far more precious than the whole materialworld. He made severalother journeys to the coasts of Spain, besides a voyage to Algiers,where, among other sufferings, he underwent imprisonment for the faith.
Wherefore, with a view to his expulsion, he persuaded the emperor,by the means of his wife Eudoxia, to order the bishop to make Pulcheria,sister to Theodosius, a deaconess of his church. _ general of the army,) St. You must see whether Christ can do it, and didit--Baptism is the sacrament of our Lord's passion; the pardon ofpenitents is the merit of confession. The most famous of all his monasteries is that of Camaldoli, nearArezzo, in Tuscany, on the frontiers of the ecclesiastical state, thirtymiles east from Florence, founded by him about the year 1009.
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