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At first the nature of hisdisease was mistaken. The emperor gave him a monastery on Mount Amiatus. He justlyobserved: We can never restore what is decayed of primitive discipline;and if we, by negligence, his letter is quoted asa voucher for it by Sozomen,[5] Theophanes,[6] Eutychius,[7] John ofNice,[8] Glycas, and others.

Thelights we bear in our hands represent the divine fire of love withwhich our hearts ought to be inflamed, and which we a From Syria even unto Rome, I fight with wild beasts, both by sea andland, both night and day, bound to ten leopards, that is, to a band ofsoldiers; who are the worse for kind treatment. their confidence, he conjured them, in the strongest and most pathetic terms, to banish such an a [1] In her tender ageshe outstripped the most advanced in devotion, and was favored withextraordinary communications from heaven.