The king then wenthimself, but was no sooner come into the presence of the holy abbot, buthe threw himself on the ground and continued prostrate till the saint,going to him, obliged him to rise. To be content, and to rejoice, in all humiliations; to be pleasedwith mean employments, poor clothes, &c. The count,before he sent him to Naples, took him for some months to see his motherat his seat at Loretto, the place which, about the end of that century,grew famous for devotion to our Lady. She afterwards said he reproved her sharply for coming to the sacred tribunal of penance too richly attired, and in a manner not becoming a penitent whose heart was broken with compunction.
When he had done, the saint, without speaking one word to justify himself or his Order, continued his sermon with the greatest tranquillity and unconcern of mind. he should make the subject of hermost zealous petitions on the occasion of her first solemn appearanceafter childbed before his altar. 184, and four Latin prayers, in honor ofSt. On account of his three banishments and greatsufferings, he is styled a martyr by St.
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