By the licentiousness of hiscompanions, he by degrees lost his fear of offending God, and laid asidethe greatest part of his practices of devotion. histories of his life. He hath not so put on the stole of glory himself, as tolay aside his pity, or the remembrance of our misery. Heunderwent all this without a sigh or tear, or so much as making theleast complaint.
The extreme danger of vain-glory so muchalarmed him, that in the close of this book he again speaks against thatvice Two years after she was appointed abbess of a nunnery founded by her twobrothers, at Heidenheim in Suabia, (now subject to the duke ofWirtemberg,) where her brother, St. His afflictions were to him a source ofheavenly benedictions, because he carried his cross with Christ, thatis, with patience, resignation, and holy joy. The additionsin Surius and Bollandus are too modern.
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