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_Hold fast what thou hast_, says the oracle of theHoly Ghost to every one of us, _lest another bear away thy crown_. A great number of other Irish saints retired to Cornwall, where many towns and churches still retain their names. Columban, which king Sigebert {336} in his charter toCougnon calls the rule of the ancient fathers. rcy in behalf of so many souls! How ought we to bealarmed at the consideration of so many dreadful exam

Theodoric, the king's son, thereuponordered his head to be struck off: but one of his Arian priests divertedhim from it, advising him to take For it must beobserved that the ancient Iconoclasts venerated the book of the gospels,and the figure of the cro The saint hearing the lions roar, cried out: I am thewheat of the Lord; I must be ground by the teeth of these beasts to bemade the pure bread of Christ. * * * * *The virtue of St.