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The saint, therefore,to prevent the scandal which such a flagrant enormity gave to his newconverts, wrote with his own hand a public circular letter. ABRAHAM, HERMIT,AND HIS NIECE ST. One of hishands, uncorrupt, was cut off in 1288, and given to his sister, thecountess Theodora, who kept it in her domestic chapel of San Severino. lding toviolence withdrew to Antioch, and thence removed to Tarsus, were he washonorably entertained by the bi