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labors, and pains,as nothing for the service of others in Christ: we cannot bear the leastword or roughness of temper. ared to so great a saint, andsaid, he was an unprofitable servant, whom neither God nor his peopleneeded. The chronicle of Edessa assures us that he was a native of Chidana, and was living in the year of the Greeks, 667, of Christ, 356. Mary's, a church and monastery of Benedictins, which he had built atWorcester, where he joined with the monks in their monastic exercises.

The saint therefore thinks he should have prevaricated ifhe had deprived the church of a minister capable of serving it. This was the originof the Gulielmites, or Hermits of St. In 1249, he resigned the offices of Ransomer and General, which was sixor seven years before his death. {396}The confessors were shackled and sent to Carthage, the residence of theproconsul.