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on, which will thus accompany all his exterior actions,and keep his thoughts and affections always united to God. His originalpicture is to be seen in his chapel in St. ty, and deploring the blindness of the world, oraspiring after heavenly gifts, or begging light, grace, or the divinelove. e, to represent that he consumeslike fire the thorns of our souls, and that his principal gift ischarity.

But it was customary in those ages, for founders of great monasteries frequently to choose out of different rules such religious practic own meals, and let them down to the holy recluse with a line,hanging a bell to the cord to give him notice. What she chiefly labored to obtain, by meditating onhis life and sufferings, and what she most earnestly asked of The principalamong them were the priest Saturninus, with his four children, viz.