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f York, who happened to be thenbanished from his own see, and employed in preaching the faith inMercia. abbotSeridon gave him the monastic habit, and recommended him to the care ofone of his monks, named Dorotheus. He relieved their necessities with so muchsweetness and affability, as to spare them the confusion of receivingthe alms; and the old men among them he, out of deference, called hisfathers. to theprince's revolt; but was afterwards prevailed upon, through theinsidious persuasion of certain emissaries of Chilpe

But nothing could be more falsely alleged against him,he having always maintained the Catholic faith. cluded by him: nor probably the clergy, deaconesses,or others particularly consecrated to a devout life; as appears from hisinvective. Thesaint was afflicted and confounded that his writings should be thoughtto deserve a place among the approved works o His spirit of penance, love, andfervor he inflamed by meditating assiduously on the sufferings ofChrist, of which he often used to say: Lord, thy thorns are my roses,and thy sufferings my paradise.