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Then could be heard the mingled shouts of the terrified villagers as they ran in a mob to the abbess and begged her to avert the danger which threatened them.

Each one copied them down according to his ability and left them as a memorial to posterity.

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,• There she took up residence with some of her nuns and served God night and day in fasting and prayer.

When she was an old woman and became decrepit through age she put all the convents under her care on a sound footing and then, on Bishop Lull's advice, went to a place called Scoranesheim, four miles south of Mainz.

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The reason why he left everything in such disorder, jotted down on odd pieces of parchment, was that he.

Then the holy virgin went out to them and urged them all to have patience.

" She presened the virtue of humility with such care that, though she had been appointed to govern others because of her holiness and wisdom, she believed in her heart that she was the least of all This she showed both in her speech and behaviour.

These were trained according to her principles in the discipline of monastic life and made such progress in her teaching that many of them afterwards became superiors of others, so that there was hardly a convent of nuns in that part which had not one of her disciples as abbess.

When she rose at the sound of the bell for Matins and could not find the keys for opening the doors of the church, she lit a candle and carefully searched all the places in which there was any hope of finding them; and as if one search was not enough, she went over the same ground again and again looking for them.

She was ever on her guard not to teach others what she did not carry out herself.