Benedict, for anymonk to eat out of his monastery, unless he was at such a distance {636}that he could not return home that day, and this rule, says SaintGregory, was inviolably observed. des Abbayes de France, t. See also Rocci Pyrrho, in Sicilia Sacra onPalermo, Catana, and Malta. The Mahometans, the Pagans, and the very Catholics, whosescandalous lives were a reproach to their holy religion; the hospitalsand the prisons, were other theatres where he exercised his zeal.
He must know in the thirdcentury that his countryman Alexander, a bishop in Cappadocia,admonished by divine oracle, went to Jerusalem to pray, and to visit theholy places, &c. After the king's officers had carriedaway the plunder of his shrine, it was privately buried under the placewhere the shrine before stood, though the spot is now unknown. Elipandus, who was not asubject of Charlemagne, could not be compelled to appear before thecouncils held in his dominions, Toledo being at that time subject to theMoors. Laurence, in the year1223, the king and St.
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