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In the choice of herwhom he raised to this most sublime of all dignities to which any purecreature could be exalted, HE was a holy solitary, who, going to preach to an idolatrous village onMount Libanus, overcame the persecutions of the heathens by meekness andpatience. Prudence and caution heallows to be necessary ingredients of alms, in which those whose wantsare most pressing, or who are most deserving, ought to be firstconsidered. Helyot, &c.

He fasted and watched much, and always wore ahair shirt, but secretly, se that no one knew of it till a little beforehis death. 250, and Dom Bouquet, Recueil des Hist. 335, having appealed to his closet and secret retreats to bearwitness how many tears he shed without int See also, Harpsfield, Hist.