Gregory, that she should never be at ease till he should obtain of God,by a revelation, an assurance that her sins were forgiven her. Four years after this, the people dragged himout of his retirement by main force, and conveyed him into the army, todefend them against the cruel king Penda, who had made war upon theEast-Angles. The martyrs rejected those idolatrous ceremonies; and, bythe mouth of Perpetua, said, they came thither of th Theywere much adulterated by the Greeks in Metaphrastes.
He built a house at the entry of the island fromLindisfarne, to lodge the brethren that came to see him, whom he theremet and entertained with heavenly conferences. The Thuringians revolting, he reduced them to their duty;and this is the only war in which he was engaged. He perfected himself in this profession atConstantinople, but excused himself from settling there, as the city andthe emperor Constantius earnestly requested him to do. ng, that it was too trifling anaffair, and that the censures of the church were to be used morereservedly.
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