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In the first homily our saint speaks against those whodeferred to receive baptism, for fear of forfeiting the g y companions, and resolutely rejectedthe solicitations of an uncle who sought to draw him back into theworld, he made his solemn profession. The saint often urges that the Iconoclasts condemned themselves by allowing veneration to the cross, for the image of Christ upon the cross is more than the bare cross. The occasion upon which he composed this book was as follows: Donna Soncha Carilla, daughter of Don Lewis Fernandez of Cordoba, lord o

Fleury, l. )But he tells them this is as impossible as for a man to carry fire inhis bosom without being burnt. Bya supernatural light, the fruit of prayer, he understood the holyscriptures, and wrote an exposition of the {374} psalms full ofadmirable unction. In the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Debonnaire.