[15] Prayer and true virtue even naturally conduce tothe perfection of learning, in every branch; for p What austerities doanchorets practise to tame their bodies, by perpetual fasts, watching,and sackcloth! yet never suffer even visits of persons of the other sex. One day he said, to be rid of theirimportunities, that he thought he could eat a little of a certain fishwhich he had formerly eaten in France, but which was not easily to befound in Italy. This was his last undertaking for the church,God being pleased soon after to call him to eternal rest, and to thecrown of his labors.
744,) and by others. , about fifty years after the death of the founder, says there wereat that time in this order between five and six thousand religiouspersons. Henschenius, t. When the shrine of the saint was plundered and demolished by theorder of king Henry VIII.
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