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56 opposed to every vice both of body and soul, from which, even from his tender youth, he kept himself free. He was pure and clean of mind; partook of no evil; ready to embrace all that was good. He had a contempt of all those things which commonly corrupt the minds of men. So patient also was he in suffering injuries and insults received from his enemies, that he never sought to revenge them, but for the very same gave God Almighty his most humble thanks, because by them he trussed that his sins might be washed away. Indeed—this good, gracious, holy, sober and wise man would declare that all these miseries had happened to him on account of his own and of his ancestors manifold offences. Wherefore he did not think of any dignity or honour, or State or of the son or friends he had lost, or make 'much dole' for them. But if in anything he had offended God, this he thought of, for this he mourned, for this he was sorry.

"These and such like acts and practices of perfect holiness caused God for his sake to manifest many miracles in his lifetime. Even to-day many are still living, who have witnessed these miracles and testified to their