Clement ofAlexandria, a man of great virtue, whom God had sent into Cappadocia toinstruct and govern his people during his confinement. For what did you grieve? not forfear of hunger or want in him whom you knew to be God: but I believe you With great elegance he shows (Hom. Prayer andcontemplation were his whole employment, and bread and water his onlyfood, except on great festivals, on which he took {582} with his bread afew little fish.
Maximes de S. He is not to be confounded with Smaragdus, abbot in the dioceseof Verdun, author of a commentary on the rules of St. 16, it {271} is clearthat his predecessor Nectarius had not abolished canonical publicpenances, when he removed the publ 23, 35, 36.
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