But attheir return to the city they found the gates shut against them, whichthe heathens refused to open. Without these the very name of a church is not given, says he-- I know many things in God, but I measure myself, lest by glorying I perish. Three days inthe week he usually took no other sustenance than bread and water, andpassed several Lents in the year after the same manner. His close manner of confuting the Arians in some of his letters, makes us regret the loss of many other works, which he wrote against them.
Being all threatened to be burnt alive,Sabina smiled. In the third book, hementions to Stagirius several of his acquaintance, whose sufferings,both in mind and body, were more grievous than those with which he wasafflicted. He carried great treasures with him to mountCassino, but left his estate to his son. The holy founder prescribed so strict silence in his order,as to forbid any one to speak, even by signs, without necessity.
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