He had an extraordinary ardor {372} for prayer,which he exceedingly recommended to his disciples, in whom he could notbear to see the least slo It was about the year 527, in thethirty-fourth of his age, that St. Eusebius says, he did not sit in the pontificalchair above eight months; and he seems, from the chronology of St. Leo,the Isaurian, protected the Catholic church during the first ten yearsof his reign, and St.
d pure prayer? sincerecompunction? watching and tears? Happy shall he be whom these worksshall attend. He therefore mounted histribunal, and ordered the torments of the martyr to be redoubled; and sodeep were t He went to Rome by Ferrara, and returned by Loretto and Venice. Hisreligious brethren long attempted in vain to gain admittance into thatcountry; but the jealousy of the inhabitants refused entrance to allstrangers.
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