WEDON, in Northamptonshire, was honored with a palace of Wulphere, kingof Mercia, in the middle of England, and was bestowed by that princeupon his daughter St. After her death it was given to the Dominicans' convent of Salerno. Eucherius, Bishop of Orleans, Confessor. Yet he fell into enormous vices.
rvor, embracing the most humbling and laborious employments, and practising extraordinary austerities, till his hap * * * * *Charity towards all mankind was a distinguishing feature in thecharacter of the saints. 1616, and l. He spent two years and a half in wonderfulabstinence, treating his body as a furious wild beast, to {399} which hewould show no other mercy than barely not to kill it.