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is a death too pure, too self-devoted, too sublime, for any butthe annals of Christian heroism to supply. The King of Glory wouldappear everywhere in the robes of poverty, to point out to us theadvantages of a suffering and lowly state, and to repress ou The soldiers hastened him on, because the public shows weredrawing to an end. Hence retirement and silencewere her delight, in order to entertain herself with the Creator of allthings, and by devout meditation, kindling in her

By assiduous prayer and holymeditation she obtained wonderful lights from heaven. The additionsin Surius and Bollandus are too modern. Coming to Bifurcum, he found the monks'cells too magnificent, and would lodge in none but that of one Peter, aman of extraordinary austerity, who never would live in a cell largerthan four cubits. onibus nostris) toGod the Father, and to Christ his Son, our Lord, giving thanks andpraying together, that he who perfects a