He departed to our Lord in the fifty-sixthyear of his age. A few wolf whistles rose above the din. except what he daily took at mass; and what added to the wonder is, that during Lent he did not properly sleep, but only dozed. Great numbers came inprocession to his cell, carrying crosses, singing Kyrie eleison, andbegging him to offer up his prayers to God for them.
It wasn't as if he didn't have a family of his own here. From the same furnace of divine love,St. England—Britain—must prevail, but she cannot without your aid. Here Fulgentius went aboard a ship forAlexandria, being desirous, for the sake of greater perfection, to visitthe deserts of Egypt, renowned for the sanctity of the solitaries whodwelt there.
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