In 592, Romanus, exarch, orgovernor of Italy for the emperor, with a view to his own privateinterest, perfidio Iltut, he passedover into Ireland, there to receive the lessons of the admirable mastersof a religious life, who had bee iful than that of the learned Benedictin, andusually preferred by those who stand in need of no translation. Footnotes:1.
He had inherited the spirit of theapostles in an heroic degree. The same servant of God declared after his death, that he had surpassedthe rest in virtue, without the practice of any extraordinary austerity. o that he onlyescaped with his life by our saint's stepping between him and the mob,and covering him with his cloak. These slanders were spread in a letter of Roscelin, whose errors against faith were condemned in the council of Soissons in 1095.
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