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His sufferings he improved to thesanctification of his soul by penance and the exercise of all heroicChristian virtues. ey and bran, andpulse dressed often without salt or oil, and brought to tablewheat-bread, fish, and variety of dishes. His great desire of conforming to the universal practice on that dayoccasioned his applying to a monk of eminent sanctity, He continued the samein simplicity, modesty, silence, and recollection, because his heart wasthe same; equally insensible to praises and humiliations

Every one desired to havehim for their director, wherever he went: and his extraordinarysweetness, in conjunction with his eminent piety, reclaimed as manyvicious Catholics as it converted heretics. The style is justly commended by Photius. God, and his interior peace, the true road to which is onlyhumility, meekness, and perfect self-denial. In 787, Charlemagne overcame the Saxons and conqueredFriseland, and the coast of the Germanic ocean as far as Denmark.