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hering, by the practice of good works, new flowers, of which thegarland of our lives ought to be composed. True improvement of the mind is impossible without the beauties of method and the advantages of taste, which are no th; but the barbarians plundering also that island, discovered himthere, and slew him with another bish aised from the ground, andheard a voice from the crucifix directed to him in these words: Thouhast writ

He made a collection in that book of the edifying examplesof virtue which he had seen or heard of among the monks, and diedshortly after at Rome. The next day the emperor Arcadius,attended by his court and guards, arrived, and the soldiers having laidaside their arms, and the emperor his diadem, he paid his devotionsbefore the shrine. The martyr knew in spirit their thoughts, andsaid much more to them than he had done in his letter on the subject oftrue charity, conjuring them not to obstruct his going to the Lord. Another, says the {258} saint, assuredme, that he had both seen himself, and heard from others, that the soulsof thos