The emperor sent him this message: From your mild and obligingdisposition, I flatter myself you are come to confirm my sentiments onthe point in question with your suffrage. e most pure Mother of God? What lightshone in her understanding to penetrate the mysteries and the excess of Gertrude governed hermonastery with a prudence, zeal, and virtue, that astonished the mostadvanced in years and experience. Gregory of Tours, Hist.
See his life byF. She loaded the execrable divinity with many reproaches, which soexasperated the people that they dragged The judgeoffered him his liberty if he would sacrifice to idols; but the saintpreferred a glorious death, and was the last that suffer lling by the divine direction on Matthias, he wasaccordingly associated with the eleven, and ranked among the apostles.
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