Thenkneeling with all the brethren, he prayed to the Son of God for theChurch, for the ceasing of the persecution, and for perpetual charityand unanimity among the faithful. The saint avoided the honor of dining with the king as often as be couldexcuse himself: and, when obliged to assist at court, appeared there asrecollected as in his convent. Phocas, &c. He lived, as it were, dead to the world and the flesh, in thegreatest purity of life, and in the exercises of continual mortificationand prayer.
He was indeed naturally of a hasty and passionate temper, as hehimself confesses; and we find in his writings a certain fire andimpetuosity which renders it unquestionable. Chronicon Sigeberti ad an. beforethe hour of evening on fasting days, that all his officers and servantsmight dine before midnight. ection, that for forty years which they livedtogether, there never happened the least disagreement; and the
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