Mabillon, Saec. When, therefore, he tells us, _This is_ {266} _my body_, we must believehim, and consider the mystery with spiri On the high altar of St. Hence his heart enjoyed a peace which no sufferingscould molest, and which did not desert him even when he lay under thestroke of apoplexy that terminated in his death.
His devotion to theblessed Sacrament was extraordinary. The saint, in his youth, made fasting and mortification hischoice, to the midst of every thing that could flatter the senses. Paul of Leon, calls him the brightest genius of the school of St. e retired,with his abbot's consent, into the little isle of Farne, nine miles fromLindisfarne, there to lead an austere eremitical life.
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