) that the loss of God is thegreatest of all the pains which the damned endure, nay, more grievousthan a thousand hells. Joseph, that the mother of God,queen of heaven, should call you her lord; that God himself, made man,should call you father, and obey your commands. Abraham converted his desert into a paradise, because he found in ithis God, whose presence makes Heaven. y to Rome, thathe might be instructed in its heavenly doctrine, and learn faithfully topractise its precepts.
thoughts of leaving hismonastery, where he spent the remainder of his days in great fervor, anddied with the reputation of sanctity. She gave up her pure soul toGod, after a short illness, on the 18th of January, in the year 1271,and of her age the twenty-eighth. achment to his own will, the source of pride; by thedenial of his senses and assiduous hard labor, to subdue his flesh; [4] The two latter historians relate, that the emperor John I.
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