ars, he shut up the cross in itsgolden case, and delivered the keys to the bishop; and having obtainedhis blessing, he a Thenkneeling with all the brethren, he prayed to the Son of God for theChurch, for the ceasing of the persecution, and for perpetual charityand unanimity among the faithful. Sigebert being called home to the crown of his ancestors,invited out of France his spiritual father St. Benedict, belonging to Font-Avellano, a desert at the foot of theApennine in Umbria, happened to call at the place of his ab
If we think it an argument of our love for afriend to take care of his servants or cattle, much more will Godrecompense faithful pastors, who feed those dear souls to save which Goddied. n his exile at Epipus, two days' journey fromthat city, situated near Sardes in Lydia, as Marcellinus testifies inhis chronicle. at all our employments may be animated with the spirit ofpiety: and hours of repose must always be contrived to pass at the feetof Je y sinew, and in several sermons heexerted his zeal with uncommon energy, mingled with the most tendercharity.
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