Bede assures us that he zealouslydevoted himself to all the laborious functions of his charge, visitinghis diocese on foot, preaching As Pharaoh said to the Egyptians in their distress: Goto Joseph; so may we confidently address ourselves to the mediation ofhim to whom God, made man, was subject and obedient on earth. But his tombbeing sacrilegiously opened, and his body stolen in 1480, it fell todust, in which state it was tra are of noconsideration with him; and that perfect humility and sanctity aloneconstitute true greatness.
[54] He no less excelled in learning, with which,he says, that humility must be accompanied, lest the pastor should leadothers astray. His devotion to theblessed Sacrament was extraordinary. THE Lombards, a barbarous idolatrous nation which swarmed out ofScandinavia and Pomerania, settled first in the counties n Basil, both abbesses, gave them to him as{563} he passed by Caesarea, in a journey to Jerusalem; which venerabletreasure they had received from their uncle.
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