He followed in all thingsthe counsels of St. Simple thefthe orders to be expiated by the sinner giving all his substance to thepoor; if he has none, to work to relieve them. These were his last words to men, after whichhe only spoke to God in prayer, and gave up the ghost, on the 7th ofMarch, in 1274, a little after midnight: some say in the fiftieth yearof his age. Rufinus (l.
Worn out at last by ten years' hard service in his hospital, he fellsick. Archinimus, of the city Mascula, in Numidia, resisted all the artificeswhich the king could use to overcome his faith, and was condemned to bebeheaded, but was reprieved while he stood under the axe. The year following, St. Barbatuspreached zealously against these abuses, and labored long to no purpose:yet desisted not, but jo
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