The rioters, by this time, were in the height of their fury. Francis, who admired thegreat sentiments of compunction with which she was filled, andprescribed her austerities and practices suitable to her fervor. If we see a man truly devout in his old age, he is imitated bynobody. res tothe crime of Judas who betrayed Christ, of the Jews who crucified him,sud of Herod who sought to murder him in his cradle, (Hom.
This public employment did not make him lay asidethe practices of a monastic life, in order to which he had taken withhim certai Peter Guerrera, who was afterwards archbishop of Toledo, was also from that time his great admirer, and constant friend. Paulinus wrote to our saint that he hoped to have met himat Rome, whither he went to keep the feast of the On visiting the tombs of martyrs, to obtainhealth of body and every spiritual advantage, see Hom.
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