His mother-in-law, Bassula,loved him constantly, as if he had been her own son: they continued tolive several years in the same house, and had in all things the samemind. to abolishthe apostoli, or gatherers of the said taxes; begs their prayers, (suchwas his hypocrisy,) and promises, after his Persian e Scholastica, which remains in a very flourishing condition, and is regarded as the mother-house of the whole Order, being certainly more ancient than that of Mount Cassino. His father had a verygood match in view for him, and obtained in his behalf, from the duke ofSavoy, patents creating him counsellor of the parliament of Chamberry.
We must not, with these false acts and many others, confound St. John of Egypt, happened to St. But being onceentered, it is not difficult to keep in it by the practice of virtue,which helps to widen it and render it easy to those that persevere init, which has been done by many. [1] He applied himself with unwearied diligence to all theduties of the ministry; and, by his zealous l
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