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But this is a circumstance which Tillemont, Badlet, Ruinart, Ceillier and others, correct from St. Footnotes:1. Matthias's day, itbeing leap-year, in the seventieth of his age, at the monastery ofOrsan, near Linieres, in Berry. His life was a perfect copy of the eminent episcopal virtues, and especially of the meekness, the candor, and affability of his worthy predecessor.

I am ashamed to be called of their number,for I am not worthy, being the last of them, and an abortive: butthrough mercy I have obtained that I shall be something, if I enjoyGod. This hisextraordinary conduct is an object of our admiration, not of ourimitation: in this saint it was the effect inished their martyrdom at Diospolis, capital of Thebais, inthe reign of Numerian, in 284, under the governor Sabinus. Being recalled home some time after, andcommanded by his abbot, with the unanimous consent of the hermitage, totake upon him the government