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Simple thefthe orders to be expiated by the sinner giving all his substance to thepoor; if he has none, to work to relieve them. He was particularly activeand vigilant in settling and providing for young maidens in distress toprevent the danger to which they are often exposed, of taking badcourses. The exact time of theirmartyrdom is not known, but it happened between the years 306 and 312. He entered into a monastery veryyoung, where he lived many years, and attained to an eminent degree ofvirtue and sacred learning.

In the same letter he rejects a seconderror of other ignorant monks, who imagined that the blessed Eucharistlost its consecration if kept to the following day. untess of Feria and the Marchioness of Pliego, whose conduct, first in a married state, and afterward Jonas theydetained with them, endeavoring to persuade him to sacrifice to fire,the sun, and water. The abstinence which he prescribedhis monks was milder than that practised by the oriental monks, and bythose of Lerins