omplained that he had been betrayed byhim into the episcopal charge; for Chrysostom persuaded him the [1]Basil, a ringleader of the Semi-Arians, was intruded into that see, butwas himself deposed by the stanch Arians, After five years spent there in the penitentialexercises of a monastic life, he went into Palestine to visit the holyplaces of Jerusalem. The Irish writers suppose him to have been ordained bishopat Rome; but what John of Tinmouth affirms, seems far more probable,that he was one of the twelve whom St.
HE was a locksmith in Lyons, who lived in great poverty and austerity,and spent all his leisure moments in holy reading and prayer. Charlemagne died January the 28th, in 814, seventy-two yearsold, and was buried at Aix-la-Chapelle. The greatest part of hisrelics are now in the church of St. sted himself of theseemployments, and led a most austere eremitical life, in the forest ofCraon, in Anjou.
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