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h of Aquileia, who seems to havebeen born {285} about the year 728, in a country farm, not far fromFriuli. He learned rhetoric underPeter Martin and philosophy under Peter of Hibernia, one of the mostlearned men of hi In the fifth, he continues the same subject, and shows thatthey ought not to fear death, if they prepare themselves for it bysincere penance. Buthe was severely scourged by St.

tined to combat at his festival? Will it not be to your honorthat we appear well fed? At this the tribune trem every street tosend every day necessaries to all the needy sick; before he ate healways sent off meats from his own table to some poor persons. This designmet with great obstacles in the execution, but the Blessed Virgin, thetrue mother of mercy, appearing to St. His ardor in the exercises ofpenance and devotion never suffered any abatement, this being a propertyof true virtu