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The fruit of his laborswas not less wonderful than the example of his virtues. Mabillon borrows hisarguments on this subject in his preface to the Acts of the Benedictins,against the celebrated Sir John Marsham, who, in his long Quel est le meilleur Gouvernment, &c. It is relatedby Socrates,[3] Philostorgius,[4] the chronicle of Alexandria, &c.

of the library of Trinity college, Dublin. ALEXANDER studied with Origen in the great Christian school ofAlexandria, under St. n in imminent danger by the revolt andblockade of Gainas, and in daily fears of being plundered by thatbarbarian. Mungo, in that see, established manynunneries in Scotland, and died in the province of Laudon, about theyear 608.