The ardor of divine love which the saint breathes throughout thisletter, is as inflamed as the subject is extraordinary. He thereforeprivately encouraged soldiers to treat contemptuously an image of Christwhich was on a great cross at the brazen gate of nt to the parish church ofAlviano; with a rope about her neck, and there asked public pardon forthem. He could notoppose the torrent of other fathers, and the practice of the wholechurch.
A young nobleman addicted to impurity, beingexasperated at this saint's severe remonstrances, had the impudence toaccuse him of a scandalous crime. The Congregation of Tiron, founded by B. But Sapricius would give no manner of attention to whathe said. In 497, a certainpious priest in that country, while he was preparing a dinner for {631}himself on Easter-Sunday, heard a
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