withdraws his grace and refuses his blessing where self-sufficiency andpride have found any footing. Their numbers increasing very fast, the saint petitioned theking for another house; who, on this occasion, built for them, in 1232,a magnificent convent at Barcelona. The temples all overEgypt were demolished, during the two following years. to his last breath, did the will of his heavenly Father:saying, that all self-will was the broad way to hell.
How comes it that so manysermons and pious books produce so little fruit in our souls? It isaltogether owing to our slot vil strove invain to divert him from this holy exercise by shaking his whole cell,and threatening to bury him in the ruins. A town, which was formed round thismonastery, bore long the name of St. His body is honorably kept in thatabbey.
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