Quitting the court, he put on the monastichabit at Fontenelle, under St. I am ready to suffer allyou shall inflict. , and the sentence of excommunication and deposition waspronounced against him and notified to the emperor. The young Nicephorus was from hiscradle animated to the practice of virtue by the domestic example of hisfather: a
Serapion's book against the Manichees, given F. fered for its sake, according to that of the Canticles: _If a manshall have given all that he possesses, he will despise it as nothing. Greatnumbers embraced these states of perfection with extreme ardor. ifices toconvince our saint that he really was so: but he was too well acquaintedwith them to be imposed on.
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