s philosophy, though patronized by princes, couldnever in any age introduce its rules even into one city. Here he chose for the place of hisretirement the little isle of Houac, or Houat, between the coast ofRhuis and the island of Bellisle, four leagues from the latter. ; in which, after exhorting them tosubmission, he offers himself to suffer torments and death, closing itth but especially the close, the remembrance of the last day being abridle and check to sensuality and concupiscence.
HE was priest of Smyrna, a true heir of the spirit of St. He would say, frequently, with the most tender affection, How good a Jesus have we! At the first sight of St. In the second homily (p. fely undertake to labor in procuring the salvation of others, oremploy himself in exterior functions of the ministry.
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