They had promised eachother, if possible, to die together; and they begged it of God, as afavor, that they might both suffer the same torments. Not long after his return home fromthe tomb of the martyr, with his mind full of the glorious exit of hisfriend, he fell asleep, and It was a calumny of the Arians, though believed bySt. Cloud'smaster.
Patrick who flourished among the hermits of Glastonbury, and was there buried, was distinct from our saint, and somewhat older. ily infect even their good works, and their devotion will be liableto a thousand illusions, and always very imperfect. One of the monks who watched and followed himone night, found that the saint, going down to the seashore, went intothe water up to the armpits, and there sung praises to God. It is not to be expressed how much he suffered from sickness during the seventeen last years of his life.