Thus virtue and learning mutually assist and improve each other. ering, he shut himself up in his cell, and lived arecluse twelve years, almost continually weeping, in the perpetualmeditation of death. ; butthat by his sloth, ingratitude, and infidelity to the divine grace, hedeserved to have been abandoned by God above all creatures. Thus Nicephorus received three immortal crowns, namely, offaith, humility, and charity, triumphs which Sapricius had made himselfunworthy of.
and casting himself at his feet,owned his fault, and begged pardon for Christ's sake; but all in vain. Hilarianus replied: You maydo it; but I am a Christian. She had a wonderful compassion for the poor,and strongly exhorted her royal brothers {523} to alms-giving and worksof mercy. - Are these the names of gods? ACACIUS.
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