Either sacrifice, or I will put you to the torture. He imitated the patience of Job, under aloathsome and tedious distemper, from which his surname was given him. [1]Hence he was reared with difficulty, and was so weak, that his life,during his infancy, was often despaired of by physicians. at Philadelphia: at Smyrna: but in that to the Romans he changes his style, and addresses his
day in all the monasteriesin England; which the council of Oxford, in 1222, {579} extended to thewhole kingdom. One daya great stone from a rock happened to fall upon him, and had like tohave crushed him to death, while he was laid down to take a little rest. Butthe martyrs did their utmost to change it into an Agape, or Love-feast. his uncle's son, and, making a pilgrimage toRome, there put on the monastic habit in 708, and persevered in greatfervor till his happy death.
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