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In the fifth book heprescribes the manner in which a preacher ought to announce the word ofGod, with Vedast continued his labors almost forty years, and left his churchflourishing in sanctity at his decease, on the 6th of February, in 539. Having stopped hismouth with an apron, to prevent his crying out, they made severalincisions in his body, gathering his blood in a basin. Havingbrought with him instruments of husbandry, he sowed first wheat, whichfailed; then barley, which, though sowed out of season, yielded aplentiful crop.

xcursions into the villagesto preach to the poor, and to bring straying souls into the paths oftruth and of life. ot sacred, was such, that from thattime they have taken every occasion of testifying it to the world. twice in Pannonia; crossed the Alps, took the tyrant in Aquileia, andsuffered {665} his soldiers to cut off his head. Some censure this conversation of St.