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He joined the recollection and penance ofa monk with the labors of his functions, and died at Constantinople, in422, havi anticipation of the heavenly bliss! divine conversation!We may imitate them, and share some degree of this advantage, byconvers He was so perfectly mortified, and dead to hissenses, that he ate without reflecting either on the kind or quality ofhis food, so that after meals he often knew not what he had been eating. He had exercised himself from his childhood in the austeritiesand devotions of an ascetic life, and possessed, in an eminent degree,chastity, temperance, and all other virtues.

52, in Acta. Venetiis, in four vols fol. )The fifty-five homilies _On the Acts of the Apostles_, he preached atConstantinople in the third year of his episcopal dignity, of our Lord401, as appears from Hom. The saint, in the beginning, borrows the most moving parts ofthe lamentations of Jeremy, showing that he had far m