Bythe constant union of his soul with God, and application to thefunctions and exercises of the angels, the affection John was now seventy-five years old, and had spent forty of them in{679} his hermitage, when, in the year six hundr * * * * *It is in vain that we take the name of Christians, or pretend to followChrist, unless we carry our crosses after him. On account of his three banishments and greatsufferings, he is styled a martyr by St.
he may be accepted by the Father; let him devotehimself with all his senses and faculties to his service. SEVERINUS, of a noble family in Burgundy, was educated in theCatholic faith, at a time when the Arian heresy reigned in that country. Topropagate the honor of God, he resolved, by the advice of the bishop ofPola and others, to exchange his remote desert, for one where he couldbetter advance his holy institute. andfrom his own writings.
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