Andrew at Sempringham, and another afterwards to acommunity of men, who desired to live under his direction. After the council of Chalcedon, where he appeared uponsummons by order of the emperor Marcian, against Eutyche Ever afterhe visited that great saint once or twice almost every summer as long ashe lived, and passed some time with him, that he might study moreperfectly to imitate his virtues. 1, de aedific.
In the letters of SS. Pliny's famous letter to Trajan shows, that singing was then in use among the Christians In Bithynia; and it appears from Philo, that the Therapeuts did the same before that time. Francis was the only one that offered himself for the work, andwas joined by none but his cousin-german Lewis de Sales. This humility it was thatobtained the succor of heaven by which he performed wonders in theservice of souls.
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