Teresadeclares how much the love of virtue was kindled in her breast by thisreading, even when she was a child. Cyril relates his having appeared several times after his death, and themany miracles that were wrought by his intercession; to several of whichhe declares himself an eye-witness. From the age in which she lived, she is thought by some to have been the first foundress of nunneries, of religious women living in community, as St. Isn't that the truth, said m'lord, who wasn't looking at either of them.
Our saint was born in 468, about thirty yearsafter the Barbarians had dismembered Africa from the Roman empire. I feel like a monster. s impiouslaws against the Christians, wishing rather for death than to see theprofanation {220} of holy things. Iftheir history affords little to gratify vain curiosity, at least a heartwhich seeks and loves God will find, even in these scanty memoirs, everything interesting and entertaining.
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