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Rh eternal welfare, and she was not disappointed; he became a christian after he was 30 years old, and not a nominal one. His excellent understanding, and deep sense of his former errors, taught him at once to be humble, rational and pious.

She had followed him to Rome, on hearing of his illness, and remained there with him afterwards. They were discoursing one evening alone, at a window, facing the east, in a house at the south of the Tiber, on holy subjects. The world appeared of no value to either. She said, "Son, what I should do here and why I am here, I know not; the hope of this life being quite spent. One thing only, your conversion, was an object for which I wished to live. My God has given me this in a large measure. What do I here?" Scarce five days after, she fell into a fever. Some one lamented, that she was likely to die in a foreign land. She had formerly been anxious about it. "Nothing," said she, "is far from God: and I do not fear, that he should not know where to find me at the resurrection." She died on the 9th day of her illness, in the 56th year of her age; having performed the duties of a wife and mother with exemplary mildness, patience and wisdom. Milner's Church of Christ.

acquired a perfect knowledge of the Latin, Italian, and Spanish tongues; and by reading the best authors in those languages, became a proficient in the art of poetry.