in thisexercise, that many renounced altogether the commerce of men to onlythat of God, and his angels; and the rest lear About the year 821,bidding adieu to the court, he retired from Aix-la-chapelle to Metz,where he entered himself amongst the clergy, in the bishop's seminary,and received the clerical tonsure. Austin mentions two courtiers whowere moved on the spot to forsake the world, and became fervent monks,by accidentally reading the life of St. This last great author quotes a picture older than St.
It stayed tantalizingly beyond his grasp. Tilo, or Theau, thenleading an eremitical life at Solignac, resigned his dignity, led forfour years a most penitential life in the abbey of Manlieu, now of theorder of St. Hilary, Bishop. 1: likewise his life in Capgrave, and the annals of his order.
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