the sacred body wascrucified; men and women have small particles of it set in gold, whichthey hang about their necks. Thisaccident so strongly affected Licinius, that he resolved to carry intoimmediate execution a design he had long entertained of entirelyrenouncing the world. This saint recommendedthe use of disciplines whereby to subdue and punish the flesh, which wasadopted as a compensation for long penitential fasts. abbotSeridon gave him the monastic habit, and recommended him to the care ofone of his monks, named Dorotheus.
The venerable John of Avila was a man powerful in words and works, a prodigy of penance, the glory of the pri Cyprian de Herrera, dedicated to pope Clement X. The day of their triumph being come, they went out of the prison to goto the amphitheatre. How high an idea ought this circumstance to give us of itsincomprehensible greatness, which its nature and
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