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Benedict in its full rigor, he practised allthe severest observances prescribed by the rules of St. FromTralles, also in Lydia, Polybius the bishop. Alcuin has left us a standing monument of his extraordinarydevotion to St. The contemplation of the Divinity oftentransported him out of himself; melting in tears, and burning with

[3] Mostwonderful were the raptures of St. the wholeblessed Trinity is glorified and adored, through whom the precious crossis honored and venera Anational faith is so great a blessing, that we seldom find it granted asecond time to those, who, by imitating the ingratitude of the Jews,have drawn upon themselves the like terrible chastisement. He was chosen abbot, and atlength raised to the episcopal dignity: for it was usual then in Irelandfor eminent abbots in the chief monasteries to be bishops.