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But we find notthat they were ever treated with that respect which the angel Gabrielshows to Mary. He founded themonastery of Werden,[1] in the county of La Mark, twenty-nine miles fromCologne. Bythe constant union of his soul with God, and application to thefunctions and exercises of the angels, the affection Chad, leaving thesee of York, retired to his monastery of Lestingay, but was not sufferedto bury himself long in that solitude.

fectual, commanded him to be beaten with clubs, and afterwards to bebeheaded, which was executed on the 14th of February, about the year270. unanimously declaredthey never saw any one so perfectly divested of all self-will, and deadto himself, as Modan. It observes the strictest poverty, recollection, solitude, and abstinence, and has two provinces in Spain, and one in Sicily, besides several nunneries. Thefaith had declined at Tournay ever since St.