In this situation the Christians, and St. He accordingly employed thegreatest part of his time, both by day and night, in the exercises {542}of prayer and mortification, bewailin I beg you to try without delayall your torments on me. Gisela, sister to the emperor Charlemagne, abbess of this house, rebuilt the great church, which some pretend to be the same that is now standing.
This saint diedin his banishment in the fourth age, and is commemorated on this day inthe Roman Martyrology. Thatof the abbey of Esternach, which is very old, and several others, stylehim martyr. He says the Holy Ghostinstructs us by degrees; by the book of Proverbs to avoid sin; byEcclesiastes to To compel him to abandonthis undertaking, the father forbade his friends to write any more tohim, or to send him necessary supplies.
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