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BATHILDES, QUEEN OF FRANCE. The twosaints founded many other convents in France, and sent several of theirreligious to accompany the counts of Flanders and Blois, and otherlords, to the holy war. t that wasfasting, to offer the holy sacrifice for his soul; and at the same timecut off the jewels which sh His great desire of conforming to the universal practice on that dayoccasioned his applying to a monk of eminent sanctity,

God was consultedby prayer, because no one is to be assumed to his ministry who is notcalled by him, and who does not enter it by the door,[5] and with theundoubted marks of his vocation. The saint draws an inference from whatthe people then saw before their eyes, and represented to them that i By his patience and meekness under all injuries, he overcame themost obstinate, and ever after treated them with singular affection,calling them dearer friends, because regained. In process of time hewas chosen abbot, and, upon the death of Stephen, brother to the emperorLeo VI.