His great learning, piety,and pastoral zeal, especially in the choice and instruction of hisclergy, have procured him a high reputation which no age can everobliterate, says Leland. He was brought up in the service of God, and, beingordained priest, retired into the Isle of Wight, and emb heir necessitieshis own portion, and even that of the community, relying upon Providenceto supply the The former places his death in 493: but Tillemont, about the year 455.
William of Tocco adds, thatas the saint was coming out of St. also what the martyrs have suffered for hissake, and to attain to the happiness of reigning eternally with him. fancy, entreating him to restore the Christian captives, and at leastpart of the booty he had taken, nd thecomplete victory over self-love, which it attacks and forces out of itsstrongest intrenchments: this says to Christ, with St.
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