Having engaged himself in a monastic state,he retired with St. The proconsul, on account of her quality, andfor the sake of her brother, a pagan, tried all means to prevail withher to renounce her faith. He gave no part of his time to amusements, but spent all themoments which the instruction of his pupil left free, in holy prayer,meditation, and pious reading. To undertake this holy function, withouta competent stock of sacred learning, and without the necessaryprecautions of human prudence and industry, would be to tempt God.
Therelics lie in a stately tomb in St. From her life, written by her confessor, Peter de Vaux. Either the see of Canterbury was still vacant after the death ofSt. Francis answered him by his book entitled, The Standard of theCross.
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