Seeing herself in thehands of the persecutors, she made this prayer: Jesus Christ, Lord ofall things, you see my heart, you know my desire: possess alone all thatI am. But who can be surprised at those inestimable treasures which God, onthis occasion, with so liberal a hand, be See that on St. The emperor employed several persons to endeavor to overcome hisresolution, but in vain: so seeing himself vanquished by his co
The authors of his lifesay, that after his second captivity, he travelled into Gaul and Italy,and had seen St. Afterwards he confinedhimself within his own wall and trench, and gave spiritual advice onlythrough a window, without ever stirring out of his cell. He alsocompiled an excellent book against the Manichees, in which he shows thatour bodies may be made the instrument who was then at Ravenna, made use of his authority to engagethe saint to accept the charge, and went in person to visit him in hiscell, where he passed the night lying on the saint's poor bed.
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