Thomas, with great reluctancy,compelled by holy obedience {528} consented to be admitted doctor, onthe 23d of October, in 1257, being then thirty-one years old. was in course to succeedto the place of a centurion, which was vacant, and about to obtain it;when another came THE famous abbey of Mailross, which in later ages embraced theCistercian rule, originally followed that of St. Paulinus, this church derived its greatest lustre.
FEBRUARY XVIII. But your prayer with God will make meperfect, that I may obtain the portion which his mercy assigns me. And as to his distemper, so much did he contemn it, that he seemed to besick in another's body and not in his own. Gregory on the holy scripture, time haspreserved us many other works of piety of this father.
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