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His book of the Love of God cost him much morereading, study, and meditation. But though he taught original sin, he is said to havedenied the necessity of grace; on which account he received to hiscommunion Celestius ded in 980, under the observance of Cluni: it was the head of a Congregation of twenty-nine other abbeys cause he refused to trampleon a crucifix, was condemned to die in 1743; and in May, 1744, wasbrought into the same prison with F.

Nothing gave the saint so much pleasure as the greatest labors anddangers, to procure the least spiritual advantage to one soul. Chatelain tells us that in Lower Brittany he is called St. Cuthman, in Bollandus, t. The devil pursued him here with his former malice; he sometimesoverwhelmed his imagination with melancholy, and once scourged himcruelly in his cell.