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e, discovering a perpetual recollection always absorbed in God,and a constant overflowing of sweetness and divine love. The fear of vain-glory moved him toretire to the desert mountain of Oxen, in Bithynia, eight miles fromConstantinople. to accept of a considerable abbey, the saint refused it;alleging, that he dreaded riches as much as others could desire them;and that, the less he had of them the less he would have to answer for. [1] Divine providence, by these means, mercifully prepared theheart of a great king to entertain a favorable opinion of our holyreligion, when St.

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