t his feet were full of ulcersand corruption; the saint insisted upon washing them notwithstanding,and they were immediately healed. Felix soondiscovered him to be no novice, and would not treat him as a disciple,but as a companion. sent to bring her corpse to his monastery,where {392} he caused it to be laid in the tomb which he had preparedfor himself. Omnia prius tentare ne pereas.
His executioners then took the body andcast it down a great precipice into a deep pit; and notwithstanding thefall, it seemed only to have received a few slight bruises. They contain a refutation of the blasphemous homiliesof that heresiarch, who yet is never {281} named in them; by whichcircumstance they seem to have been written before his condemnation. The holy abbot, fearing this singularity might be a mark ofaffectation, said to him: If you are a s n, and in the doctrine, actions,and sufferings of our Blessed Redeemer, in a word, all theincomprehensibl
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