See Platina, Ciacconius, St. Gregory ofNyssa, and St. He wore a rough hair shirt,and, while his health permitted him, contented himself with a smallquantity of bread and water. Ethelbert, and wassometimes an instrument of miracles, even to the days of Henry VIII.
ient often to disturb the quiet of the mind, and betray one intoconsiderable inconveniences, faults, and follies. Thebeneficial result of such conduct was soon made manifest, for he therebywon the hearts of all the religious, who under him, advanced with rapidstrides towards the most heroic {514} perfection. odel of virtue, especially of prayer,watching, universal mortification of the senses, and obedience, livingas if in all things he 376,) I am filled withdread when I behold it.
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