Gregory nowhere flatters their vices, but admonishes by compliments those who could not be approached without them. Martin, which St. Hewas possessed of no other earthly goods but a cloak and a piece ofsackcloth which he wore, and a little vessel out of which he both ateand drank. Almost all, as if it were by commonconspiracy, throw themselves into the gulf, where the multitude ofcompanions will be no comfort.
Cuthman, in England, Confessor. She resided at Bourges, wore only sackcloth, andaddicted herself entirely to the exercises of mortification and prayer,and to works of charity, in which she employed all her great revenues. The saint was much afflicted at his sudden and unhappy death, andenjoined Maurus a penance for calling it a deliverance from persecution. m a schedule of his debts, to the amount in appearance of onehundred pounds of gold, of which only ten were cancelled.
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