He foretold him that he should meet with great persecutions andsufferings, and should be a bishop, but with many afflictions: all whichcame to pass, though at that time extremely improbable. 441, and Hom. Chrysostom, both in the dictionand in the manner of reasoning, that the reader must find himself quitein another world, as Montfaucon observes. , in 1057, prevailed with him to quit his desert, and madehim cardinal bishop of Ostia.
You will take Rome: you willcross the sea, and will reign nine years longer: but death will overtakeyou in the tenth, when you shall be arraigned before a just God to givean account of your conduct. Suffering himself to beovercome by their entreaties, he undertook the advocacy of their causewith the pontiff, and succeeded, in a congregation held He often repeated those words of St. e cannot but confess that we lie under an indispensablenecessity of leading mortified lives, both in order to fulfil ou
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