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entured too near, and left them half dead: only the martyrs hecould not approach; he stopped, and stood scraping The Marnion, in which menhad been often sacrificed, burned for many days. Philip Neri, affirms, that whilethis saint lived at Rome, he conversed a considerable time withCatharine of Ricci, a nun, who was then at Prat, in Tuscany. The saint adds, it was a great grief to him to see Christiansfall short of the virtue of a heathen, whereas they ought to beimitators of the angels, nay, of God himself.

Thus qualified, he, with admirable sagacity andpiety, penetrates and unfolds the unbounded spiritual riches of theleast ti Laurence, Archbishop of Canterbury. In a most cruel invasion ofthese pirates, he withdrew into the isle of May, in the bay of the riverFor Flavian's sermons and other writings are all lost except his discourse to Theodosius, preserved by St.