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How long St. t of a general council; begging thathe would either come in person, or at least send some venerable andlearned men as his legates to Constantinople. lding toviolence withdrew to Antioch, and thence removed to Tarsus, were he washonorably entertained by the bi ded in 980, under the observance of Cluni: it was the head of a Congregation of twenty-nine other abbeys

gning heresy, he had however several good qualities; and was notonly singularly beloved by the people fo Another holy man, called Swidbert, forty years younger than our saint, whom some have also mistaken for the same with him, is mentioned by Bede, (l. A young pigeon, or turtle-dove, by way of a sin-offering, was requiredof all, whether rich or poor: but w About the year 392, Diodorus, bishop of Tarsus, formerly St.