Having losther husband in the seventh month of her marriage, she rejected the suitof Cerealis the consul, uncle of Gallus Caesar, and resolved to imitatethe lives of the ascetics of the East. Gregorythe Great to have been learnedly ignorant and wisely unlettered. The abbess of this latter is the first princess of the empire. to Notitia Monastica, in folio.
ars, he shut up the cross in itsgolden case, and delivered the keys to the bishop; and having obtainedhis blessing, he a was endued atthe same time with a divine prudence, an eminent spirit of prayer, andthe gift of tears. Chatelain, notes, p. She eagerly listened toevery instruction and exhortation of piety.
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