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580 {original footnote has incorrect page reference} infra. 28,) propagates andmultiplies all things in nature to the end of the world, so it is notthe priest, but Christ, by the wo to others he esteems as done to himself! To animate ourselves to fervor,we may often call to mind what St. To shun the esteem of theworld, he disguised himself, and going to the monastery of Tamlacht,three miles from Dubli

HAVING renounced the world, he passed some years in the monastery of St. Among the letters of thesaint, which, with certain scattered homilies, fill up the latter partof this volume, the seventeen addressed to St. Gregory, as if by this publication of the imperial edict he had concurred to what he condemned as contrary to the divine law. Inthis interior solitude, the soul collects all her faculties withinherself, employs all her thoughts on herself and on God, and all herstrength and affections in aspiring after him.