though indisposed, continued to preach andperform all his {301} functions, especially on Christmas-day, and St. The young king had reigned three years and a half, when, being one dayweary with hunting in a forest near Wareham, in Dorsetshire, he p , lest he should contract someattachment to creatures, which would separate him from the chasteembraces of his heavenly spouse. e finished his studies in the same manner he had began them, and bore the first prize in philosophy and his other classes.
Providence preserved his life for the sake of others, and he died {390}about the year 580, in a happy old age, in solitude, where he had forsome time prepared himself for his passage. HE was a noble Briton, a native of Cornwall, cousin of St. ng them the advantagesof their state from the benedictions and example of Christ; and toafford her charitable succ He therefore mounted histribunal, and ordered the torments of the martyr to be redoubled; and sodeep were t
Join the newsletter to receive news, updates, new products and freebies in your inbox.