272) the Eternal Wisdom distributeshis body as bread, and his saving blood as wine: the Maker gives himselfto the work of his own hands. [4]From this book of St. The saint, in his youth, made fasting and mortification hischoice, to the midst of every thing that could flatter the senses. oving themaledictions laid on mankind in punishment of their sins, and incommunicating to them the source of all good.
This saint was the patron of Glastenbury, wherea church and hermitage, very famous in the times of the a Julian, a heathen lord, apprehended them; and theemperor himself passing through Brescia, when neither threats nortorments could shake their constancy, commanded them to be beheaded. afterwards condemned him to be burned alive; he was accordinglynailed to a trunk or post, and a pile heaped round him and set on fire. nstance made these fugitives welcome in Gaul, and allowed them to settle on the coast of Armorica about the year 293.
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