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Entertain no desires of the world, having JesusChrist in your mouths. erished! how much is found ofself-love, with which sometimes their spiritual exercises themselves arei The love of God, which triumphed in the breasts of the martyrs, madethem regard as nothing whatever labors, losses, or torments theysuf He was a man of apostolic humility,patience, meekness, prayer, zeal, and charity.

s chosen abbot at La-Val-Benois, in the diocese ofSisteron, in the reign of Gondebald, king of Burgundy, who died in 509. seu de Statius. Our saint having suffered in silence thisimprisonment and persecution upwards of a twelvemonth, some say twoyears, at length, on the remonstrances of Pope Innocent IV. ) The chief modern ascetical treatise on this subject is, La Regle de St.