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They endeavored to pull off his habit, but heresisted them so violently that they conducted him in it to the seat ofhis parents, called Rocca-Secca. HE was born near Nantes, of pious parents, lords of that territory. Some shires (or counties) are mentioned before king Alfred; and Asserius speaks of earls (or counts) of Somerset, and Devonshire, in the reign of Ethelwolph. es of all Ireland, held yearlyat Taraghe, or Themoria, in East-Meath, the residence of the chief king,styled

It observes the strictest poverty, recollection, solitude, and abstinence, and has two provinces in Spain, and one in Sicily, besides several nunneries. Basiliscus is called bishop of Comana, is evidently falsified by the mistake of copiers, as Stilting demonstrates; who shows this Basiliscu John, who had been a captain of a troop of robbers and murderers, becamean illustrious penitent. But ourgreat saint was chosen by God the saviour of the life of him who was thetrue Saviour of the souls of men, rescuing him from the tyranny ofHerod.