, in which hefrequently and strongly recommends the most devout veneration for theirrelics. But he allowed noindulgence with regard to the essential points of a solitary life,silence, poverty, and the denial of self-will. He lived, as it were, dead to the world and the flesh, in thegreatest purity of life, and in the exercises of continual mortificationand prayer. He accordingly deputed somefriends to go to Sapricius to beg his pardon, promising him allreasonable satisfaction for the injury done him.
Therefore, a fervent novitiate, employed inthe exercises of an interior life, ought to be a part of the preparationfo 699,) he calls their relics dispersed in differentplaces, the ramparts of the cities, &c. tock, advancing the divine honor, andmore perfectly uniting his soul to God by every heroic virtue:disgraces, dangers, g himself to receive it with the utmost purity of heart and fervor of love he was able to bring to that divine banquet.
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