When he was at Lima, he every day visited several hospitals, comfortedand exhorted the sick, and administered the sacraments. auty, and have so comely personsin his possession: and that so fine an outside should have nothing ofGod's grace to furnish it within. The pope'slegates were never suffered to read his letters to the council. Gregory Nazianzenwrote to him in the strongest terms, exhorting him to renounce thatpaltry or ignoble glory, as he elegantly calls it.
But the Lord, whose willhe consulted by earnest prayer, supported him, and comforted him by avision; so that he persevered in his resolution. The day before they suffered they gave them, according to custom, theirlast meal, which was called a free supper, and they ate in public. s dead to himself and the world, livingonly to God in his heart, by that admirable sentence: My love iscrucified. which never forsook him; and it was his constantstudy to afford them all the temporal comfort and assistance in hispower.
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