He settled itunder the rule of St. Ontraditions received by the church from the apostles he writes asfollows: (Hom. ops;which could not be understood of him who had never been allowed to takepossession of his former see. he happy number of those who, frombeing the last, are raised by their fervor to the first rank in thekingdom of God.
ity andpleasures; till, opening his eyes upon the remonstrances of certainpious friends, he distributed h Tarasius, patriarch of Constantinople, in806, no one was found more worthy to succeed him than Nicephorus. The book on the Trinity cannot be St. [1] This great restorer of the monastic order in theWest, worn out at length with mortification and fatigues, suffered muchfrom continual sickness the latter years of his life.
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