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10, in Joan. The ancient calendar ofCarthage, written in the fifth age, commemorates him on the 5th ofJanuary; but the Roman on the 22d of March. His diet was very sparing,though, to shun ostentation and the danger of vain-glory, he ate ofevery thing that was allowed among the monks of Egypt, who universallyabstained from flesh, fish, &c. or approach them, at the sametime that they fell foul on their keepers, and others that came in theirway.

Nor can we presume that the goodness of God would permit one full of such ardent love at him to be imposed upon in a point of this nature. By his discourses he movedothers to contribute large alms towards this charity, and at last formeda project for in He never ate till aftersunset, and then very sparingly; but never any thing that had beendressed by fire, not so much as bread. tter, and on the precept of our forgiving injuries, by which we becometrue imitators of Christ, and inherit the privileges of his disciples.