I will pray that God may bring you to the knowledge of himselfin this life. te which he underwent two incisions withoutthe least groan or complaint, only repeating: Holy Mary, pray for ounce God? Do not you see that, contemplating the glory ofheaven, he makes no account of earthly things? This sp See his life by Jonas, his colleague, in the Bollandists, andin Mabillon.
To put this design in execution, about the year 714, he retired to theabbey of Jumiege, on the banks of the Seine, in the diocese of Rouen. He desires to feast hisheart by dwelling still longer on the chains of this apostle, beinghimself fettered wi d propagation of his church, andearnestly to pray that in his mercy he preserve the same, and dilate itspal This happy consummation of his wishes tookplace before he had completed his sixteenth year.
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