John Climacus, speaking of the excellence and the effects ofcharity, does it with a feeling and energy worthy of such a subject. Thesaint replied, that hell is the portion of all who die guilty ofidolatry. s chosen abbot at La-Val-Benois, in the diocese ofSisteron, in the reign of Gondebald, king of Burgundy, who died in 509. 580 {original footnote has incorrect page reference} infra.
He often met with the like plots and assaults from several ofhis own disciples, which procured him the repeated merit, though not thecrown, of martyrdom. harging him with the care of several dioceses inthose parts, which, through the iniquity of the times, had continuedlong vacant. Benedict, which St. Benedict most learnedly opposed this heresy, andassisted, in 794, at the council assembled against it at Frankfort.
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