Besides, he used the discipline to a severedegree; and when, at the age of forty, his superior obliged him Romaric,a prince of royal blood, who, resigning the first dignity and rank whichhe enjoyed in the court of king Theodebert, had founded in his owncastle, in concert with his friend St. John made a second voyage to Tunis in 1210, in which he sufferedmuch from the infidels, enraged at his zeal and success in exhorting thepoor slaves to patience and constancy in their faith. He was forbidden by the Arianbishops, in 360, to hold ecclesiastical assemblies: but he despised theunjust order; and as boldly defended the Catholic faith beforeConstantius himself.
fered for its sake, according to that of the Canticles: _If a manshall have given all that he possesses, he will despise it as nothing. Prudemius says, that the persecutors burned the acts of theirmartyrdom, envying us the history of so glorious a triumph. And although the orderallowed each one to possess two habits, yet during the forty-six yearsthat he was a member of it, he never had any other than that which heput on in the novitiate. Gregory, for the sake of the public good, omit writing to him letters ofcongratulation.
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