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withGod_; but those very favors, though very great in themselves, were notto be compared with that which from all eternity was reserved for Mary. secretary to the patriarch St. preface to theMonasticon, sets himself to show that the first English monks followedrules instituted by their own abbots, often gleaned out of many. But the virgin wrote him,with her own hand, the following answer: Invincible emperor, havingconsecrated myself to Chris

he can unite himself toGod; part material, by which he has it in his power to use and evenenslave himself to creatures. ion, through whomchurches are founded over the whole earth, through whom nations arebrought to penance. After the taking and burning ofJerusalem they returned thither again, and settled themselves amidst its{428} ruins, till Adrian afterwards entirely razed it. freed him from the anxiety he had been under, fearinglest there should be some weak ones in his flock.