The author confirms his precepts by severaledifying examples, as of obedience and penance. Swidbert of Keiserswerdt with a younger saint of the same name, also an Englishman, first bishop of Verden or Ferden, in Westphaly, and Dom Mege, Vie de St. The holy countess, Maud, undertook to expel therefractory canons, but they raised a sedition, and, being supported bythe emperor Henry, drove the bishop out of the city, in 1079.
It is mentionedin the true Martyrology of Bede, &c. She resided at Bourges, wore only sackcloth, andaddicted herself entirely to the exercises of mortification and prayer,and to works of charity, in which she employed all her great revenues. Henschenius, p. On his arrival at Thonon, the capital ofChablais, situate on the lake of Geneva, he found in it only sevenCatholics.
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