This monument isof stone, ten feet high, embellished with thirty curious antique imagesof kings of Mercia and other princes, ancestors or relations of thissaint. It is relatedby Socrates,[3] Philostorgius,[4] the chronicle of Alexandria, &c. See Tillemont, t. Order my father's stewards to acquit my farmers of allthey owe since his death, that I may serve God without let orhinderance, and may stand before him without the solicitude of temporalaffairs.
The saint failed not with greatearnestness to recommend their distress to the Father of mercies, andhis prayer was immediately recompensed with abundant rains. ) He extols exceedingly the state of virginity as equal tothat of the angels. , in Poland,thirty-six years after his death; and an authentic relation of hismiracles, with many circumstances of his life, by Gregory Swiecicki,canon of Vilna; also the commentary of Henschenius, p. He excelled all other holy prelates and apostolicmen in mildness and in the sweetness of his discourses, as Origentestifies.
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