Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Heroic Virtue, Vol. 3: A Portion of the Treatise of Benedict XIV. On the Beatification and Canonization of the Servants of God
I do not think that I should conceal anything from you. For I think that it may tend some what to your instruction, if, seting aside hu mility, I should, for a little time, lay open before you with all simplicity, all the truth re specting what I design; trusting, in the mean time, neither to incur the note of vain-glory with you, on account of my freedom of speech, nor to have to charge my conscience with the crime of falsehood, from having suppressed any portion of the truth. In Palladins* the Abbot Anuph is brought in speaking to his companions as follows: Blessed be God, who has marked out these things likewise for me, your manner of life, and your coming. From the time I professed the name of our Saviour upon earth, no falsehood has ever proceeded out of my mouth. I have partaken of no earthly food, but an angel from heaven has daily sustained me with celestial bread. Saying these and such like things, on the third day he gave up his spirit, which was immediately taken up by angels and the choirs of martyrs, and carried up to heaven. While they looked on and heard the hymns that were chant ed. In the same history, the Abbot Pambo, of great holiness, thus speaks when at the point of death: I do not remember ever to have eaten the bread of idleness, and I do not repent of any thing I said even to this hour.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
