He wrote also with great earnestness to John,patriarch of Constantinople, and to other powerful friends in that city,begging them to em We are determined never to violate the fidelitywhich we owe to God, or to deny Jesus Christ our Saviour, for he is ourGod, from whom we have our being, and to whom alone we aspire. One day at the king's table, the saintcried out: The argument is conclusive against the Manichees. She visitedher holy brother once a year, and as she was not allowed to enter hismonastery, he went out with some of his monks to meet her at a house atsome small distance.
David, being invited toit, went thither, and in that venerable assembly confuted and silencedthe infernal monster by his eloquence,{492} learning, and miracles. reprimandedhis sons; but was condemned for not having done it, because he did notuse sufficient severity. LEANDER was of an illustrious family, and born at Carthagena inSpain. THIS saint was born to 1556, at Leonissa a small town near Otricoli, inthe ecclesiastical state, and at eighteen years of age made
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