Her life in her retirement,to that happy moment which closed her mortal pilgrimage, was a continueduniform contemplation, by which all her powers were united to, andtransformed into God. The faith wasplanted here by St. In the first, he elegantlyshows the universal, indispensable necessity of prayer, which aloneunites the heart to God, and preserves it from the approach of sin. the infinite advantage, peace, and honor annexed to his divineservice; he who is inflamed with ardent love of God, and
He had lain a year in the dungeon, when an ambassador fromthe emperor obtained his enlargement, on condition he should never speakto any of the courtiers about religion. His name is celebrated asthat of an illustrious martyr, in the sacramentary of St. hich kingdom he speaks at large; on its immortality, thecompany of the angels, the joy, liberty, beauty, and glory of theb and holy virgins, which, in 484,became general, and occasioned vast numbers of the Catholics to be putto death.
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