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Peter prince of theapostolic choir, (Serm. nfor fear of torments, and was killing ants, which those heretics heldunlawful, teaching that insects and beasts have rational souls. Besides,in our embodied state, they contribute to excite our souls todevotion; they are to our eyes, what words are to our ears, and by ourorgans move the affections of our hearts. So many flourishingchurches in the East which were planted by the labors of the chiefestamong the apost

1, in Canisius's Lectiones Antiquae, republished by Basnage, part 2, &c. Count Withur, whoresided in the Isle of Bas, bestowed his own house on the saint to beconverted into a monastery; and St. at Constantinople, concurredzealously in assembling the second general council which was opened atConstantinople, in the year 381. 41, and proves that it cannot reasonably be contested.