It wasafterwards translated to York, on the 15th of October, which day wasappointed his principal festival. We will keep the commandments of God atthe expense of our lives. on the same day, or that he should not understand theLunar Cycle, which at that time was known by very few. Among its abbesses are counted fourteen princesses, of which five wereof the royal house of Bourbon.
He usually preferred his virtue to that of all his otherdisciples, and proposed him to them as a model. Being now about forty years of age, stung with remorse for his pastmisconduct, he began to entertain very serious thoughts of a change oflife, and doing penance for his sins. This filled all present with fear, seeing the endeavors of theenemy of man to find something to condemn even in the life of so holyand so irreprehensible a bishop. But above all, the Saracens of Arabaia and Spain wrote with incredible subtilty on his principles.
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