Bennet governed also a monastery of nuns, situatenear Mount Cassino, as is mentioned by St. His parishioners weresteeled in their irregularities, and averse from whatever looked likeestablishing order and discipline among them. Sopowerful was the impression which the Holy Ghost, dwelling in hisbreast, made on the most haughty sinners. Their conversion he would have them begin by correctingthe habit of swearing, which had taken deep root among many of them.
ough one hundred and twenty years old, he suffered withso much patience that he drew on him a universal admiration, and that ofAtt Inthe first he lays down humility for the foundation of all the rest. nimity favorablycontrast with the pusillanimous and almost heathen despondency anddesolation which overwhe Let none of you who are present attempt to succor me.
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