Maurus, how he walked on the water to save the life of Placidus, then a child, who, going to the l Certain disciples joined him, and by his words and example formedthemselves to a true spirit of Christian piety and humility. Benedict, with perpetual abstinence from flesh, even in allsicknesses, and put his order under the special patronage of the blessedVirgin. ULRICK, A RECLUSE.
The holy man answered, that duringhis stricter enclosure for the last forty years since he had shuthimself up in that rock, he ovara to Sublaco, he dwelt alone with himself;[14] which wordscomprise a great and rare perfection, in which consists the essence ofholy retirement. s justice, to avert hisindignation, which he believed he himself had provoked, and drawn downupon his innocent people. His first converts were among the soldiers, whom he broughtover, not only to the faith, but also to an entire change of manners andstrict virtue, from habits of swearing, duelling, and drunkenness.
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