he can unite himself toGod; part material, by which he has it in his power to use and evenenslave himself to creatures. They throw away on dogs, and what is superfluousamong servants, that which Christ wants in his members, to whom allstrictly belongs whatever we enjoy beyond what is necessary for life. HIS father was an officer in the armies of king Dagobert, and the saintspent some years in the court of king Clotaire III. See Molanus, Addit.
Gontran, King and Confessor. He died on the 3d of March, about the year 529, in a very advanced age. Being pressed to declare what he was: Weare sinners, said he, whom the mercy of God hath conducted into thiswilderness to do penance. Fire was set to the end of the pile of woodtwenty-five feet from the martyrs, and gradually approached them, twohours before it reached them.
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