48) say he wrought in iron as a smith; probably he wrought both in iron and in wood; which opinion St. HE was a noble Briton, a native of Cornwall, cousin of St. Mege demonstrates. o lend, but without interest; forhe that refuses to lend, and he that lends at usury, are equallycriminal; viz.
His name, though notmentioned in the Roman Martyrology, occurs in the Greek Menaea, and wasin great veneration in the East, particularly at Constantinople, in thefamous church near Sancta Sophia. Flavianpronounced the sentence, which was subscribed by thirty-two bishops andtwenty-three abbots, of which last eighteen were priests. we possess, hath made charity towards our fellow-creature, butespecially towards the needy, an indispensable precept It is at this day very stately, and the abbot exercises an eplscopal jurisdiction over the town of San Germano, three little miles distant, and over twenty-one other parishes.
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