He miraculously calmed a storm at sea,and landed safe at Capreola. The saint betook himself to prayer, and the man, afterhanging on the gibbet two hours, being left for dead, by the cor His diet was very sparing,though, to shun ostentation and the danger of vain-glory, he ate ofevery thing that was allowed among the monks of Egypt, who universallyabstained from flesh, fish, &c. Benedict was universally received for betteruniformity and discipline: to which the just commendations of St.
ontrary to the holy scriptures, and therefore justly condemned as erroneous, as Baronius observes, (add. His dignity seemed to make no alteration either in hismortifications, or in the constant recollection of his soul. Against this abuse he quotes the council of Sardica, which forbade any bishop to be absent from his see above three weeks. The rioters, by this time, were in the height of their fury.
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