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Many nobles and influential men gave their daughters to God to live in the monastery in perpetual chastity; many widows also forsook their homes, made vows of chastity and took the veil in the cloister.

Born in Nagoya in 1900.

He ended his prayer there and then went down to the western crypt above which the body of the holy martyr Boniface lies at rest.

In this state of panic they filled the air with the din of their mingled cries.

PROLOGUE Before I begin to write the life of the blessed and venerable virgin Leoba, I invoke her spouse, Christ, our Lord and Saviour, who gave her the courage to overcome the powers of evil, to inspire me with eloquence sufficient to describe her outstanding merits.

The best edition, upon which this translation is based, is found in Monutnenta Gerrnaniae Historica, Scriptores, ed.

Louis, King of Germany, impressed by his attainments, took him from Fulda to become his chaplain, preacher and confessor, and in recognition of his services gave him certain revenues which Rudolf left after his death for the benefit of his school.

There has been no previous complete translation into English of this biography, though Serenus Cressy Church History of Brittany, bk.

For there are several religious men still living who can vouch for the facts mentioned in the documents, since they heard them from their predecessors, and who can add some others worthy of remembrance.

This he did because the monks who lived there were poor and had no revenues and were forced to live on the produce of their own manual labour.