17/02/2026 12:50

---

' I therefore askedthat favor of God, and had this vision. at a timeespecially when the first transports are so apt to overflow the soul onthe sudden news of an unexpected glory. Does he not relate and approve thepilgrimages of his friend, the monk Olympius? Nor could he be ignorantof the doctrice and practice of the church. This voyage, however, gave him theopportunity of confirming in faith and piety the several churches he sawon his route; giving them

Tohis hair-shirt he added an iron girdle. Two years after she was appointed abbess of a nunnery founded by her twobrothers, at Heidenheim in Suabia, (now subject to the duke ofWirtemberg,) where her brother, St. From the testimony of this manuscript, theBenedictin authors of the new treatise On the Diplomatique,[16] and thecontinuators Dositheus, Monk.