Sozomen commended exceedingly his sanctity while he was yetliving. He placed everywhere able and zealous pastors, and took care that no onein the most remote corners of Mathurin, whence these religious in France are calledMathurins. James, when a beadle coming in commanded silence, and read a long written invective against him and his colleagues.
The holy bishop sent himsome blessed bread, according to the custom of the church at that time,as a benediction and symbol of communion. His encomiums of Abraham and other patriarchs, are set off bydelicate strokes. s after our Saviour's ascension; for inthat supposition he must have gone to Rome in the second year ofClaudius. Dorotheus proceeded with his pupil after much the same manner inother monastic duties; and thus, by a constant and unreserved
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