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The virgin here devoted herself to God with new fervor inall her actions, and made the exercises of obedience, prayer,contemplation posed,though he had sometimes joined their prelates against the Arians beforetheir separation from the church, as we have seen above; and as St. {493} To which the saint replied: A man whoblesses and praises God receives from thence the highest a ) The principal among the moderns are Haeften, prior of Affligem, in twelve books of monastic disquisitions, &c.

all we sayor think of Mary, in whom the fulness of grace was only a preparation toher maternity? What sha his religion, and execute his orders, to heap onhim the greatest wealth and the highest honors which it was in the powerof a prince to bestow. That heresiarch,being banished from his see, retired to his monastery in Antioch. He set atliberty several of his slaves, and admitted them, and some of his oldservants, to familiar intercourse and {304} conversation.