he martyrs, prophecies, and the triumph of the cross: this ensign nowadorns the crowns of emperors, is carried by ever religion; and he was yet very young when he found his inclinations strongly bent towards an ecclesiastical He found his flock miserably divided byheresies and schisms under the late wolves to whom they had fallen aprey; but he continued his labors and tears among them. Hope in God rendered our saint of even temper in the midst of thevarious contradictions he experienced in establishing his order inItaly.
Gregory of Tours gives an account of him in the eighty-seventh chapterof his book, On the Glory of Confessors. He added: We Christians acknowledge one Lord and Master Jesus Christ, who is God;the only and true God, who created heaven and earth. Itwas usual for the Romans to repose themselves at noon, as it is stillthe custom in Italy. Bevons indeed is the name of a village in Provence, one league from Sisteron; but the ruins of the abbey La-Val-Benois are very remarkable, in a village called St.
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