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45. Of these saints, excepting St. Firmin and St. Honore, of whom I have already spoken, St Geoffroy is more real for us than the rest; he was born in the year of the battle of Hastings' at Molincourt in the Soissonais, and was Bishop of Amiens from 1104 to 1150. A man of entirely simple, pure, and right life: one of the severest of ascetics, but without gloom—always