May, in Dauphine, sixteen leagues from Sisteron, in which diocese it is. All other virtues appeared more conspicuous in her, but above therest an ardent zeal for religion. Jerom, and others, Tillemont andDe Prato doubt of this circumstance. ity,mortification of his senses, and perfect self-denial, might be calledthe greatest of his miracles.
It was atriumph to us to be conducted as a spectacle through the market-placeand the streets, with our chains rattling. The desire of renouncing the world made him leave his{474} friends and country at twenty-five years of age, [9] The style of the martyr everywherefollows the impulses of a burning charity, rather than the rules ofgrammar, and his pen is never able to express the sublimity of histhoughts. They throw away on dogs, and what is superfluousamong servants, that which Christ wants in his members, to whom allstrictly belongs whatever we enjoy beyond what is necessary for life.
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