ir wants; and when he was only a private monk, he earnestlyrecommended this charity to the superiors. No dangers nor torments could deter them fromthis duty. Stephen, in the Isleof Capreae, now Capri. Emilian, and the life of that servant of God, who, after living long ahermit, was called to serve a parish in the diocese of Tarragon, where afamous monastery now bears his name.
the labors ofpenance; also to remove a hardness of heart and spiritual dryness, andto soften the soul into compunction. Marcella was scourged by them for the treasures which shehad long before distributed among the poor. He was therefore banished to Oasis, in thedeserts of Upper Egypt, on the borders of Libya, in 431, and diedmiserably and impenitent in his exile. His great desire of conforming to the universal practice on that dayoccasioned his applying to a monk of eminent sanctity,
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