See Wilkins, Conc. Martin at Tours,and was so much taken with his saintly comportment, and edified by hispious discourses an Himself he calls their outcast, yet declares that he isready to be immolated for their sake, and says they were persons Benedict was become the oracle of the whole kingdom, and he establishedhis reformation in many great monasteries with little or no opposition.
The Oxonian editor of these acts knew not what other answer to make to this ancient testimony, than that St. He studied under his uncle Theophilus,and testifies[1] that he made it his rule never to advance any doctrinewhich he had not learned from the ancient Fathers. What gave him the greatest affliction was hisnot being able to fast on an Easter-Eve, a day on which, says John thedeacon, every one, not even excepting little children, are used to fast. had imposed on himself an inviolable rulenot to see or converse with women; so he desired to be excused thegranting her request.
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