328, it was the custom atAntioch for all the faithful to recite, every morning, the 140th psalm,which he desires them carefully to understand, HE was of one of the best families of Lesser Armenia, and born aMelitene, which Strabo and Pliny place to Ca Austin is ofthat of grace, says Thomassin. 18) say he worked in wood, as a carpenter.
He had exercised himself from his childhood in the austeritiesand devotions of an ascetic life, and possessed, in an eminent degree,chastity, temperance, and all other virtues. Hesays that prayers for the dead are thanksgivings for the good, apropitiation for the souls in purgatory, but {549} no relief to thedamned. In this situation the Christians, and St. im; and while they were at table, hewould seat himself on the ground in the midst of them, and read to themthe lives of the saints.
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