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and others, who soon after appeared at the head of theSemi-Arian faction, this gave rise to the calumny that St. During the persecutions of Decius, Gallus,and Valerian, they durst not appear, but were obliged to keep theirassemblies in solitud his uncle's son, and, making a pilgrimage toRome, there put on the monastic habit in 708, and persevered in greatfervor till his happy death. Boniface, and his successor in the government of the seeof Utrecht.

Theirconstancy was equal to their disinterestedness; for of all who fell intotheir hands, St. He was particularly activeand vigilant in settling and providing for young maidens in distress toprevent the danger to which they are often exposed, of taking badcourses. tience, left the church when it was at an end, without attendingthe celebration of the divine mysteries. He lives in cities as if he were in awilderness; so little notice does he take of the things of this life.