The high reputation of hislearning and virtue procured him the title of Father of the Fathers, asthe seventh general council testifies. He was buried in St. Vedast, whom they called St. ; and they pronounced many anathemas against all image-breakers, that is, those who do not honor holy images, or those who call them Idols.
See also the excellentnew edition of the letters of St. In 818, he was, removedout of his dungeon, and banished into the isle of Samothracia, where hedied in seventeen days after his arrival, on the 12th of March. His letter to Walburge, first abbessof Nienherse, is a pathetic exhortation to humility and virginity. In the fifth session were read many passages of fathers falsified and corrupted by the Iconoclasts, as was clearly shown.
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