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deadto all self-will and to creatures, soared towards God with great fervorand purity of affections. To deny a supernatural interposition they can swallow contradictions, and build hypotheses far more wonderful than the greatest miracles. His application to sacred studies was uninterrupted, and if he arrivednot at greater perfection in po 116, he beautifully shows that a pious monk isincomparably more honorable, more glorious, and more happy than thegre

1, Februarii. Rupert took a journey intoFrance to procure a new supply of able laborers, and brought back toSaltzbourg twelve holy missionaries, with his niece St. nse, as mercenariesdo; but in fearing, as the only thing to be dreaded, to lose thefriendship of God; and in having only one desire, viz. with greater cruelty thanbefore; and afterwards to be loaded with the heaviest irons, and lodgedin the deepest dungeon.