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AtGibraltar he met with a Portuguese gentleman condemned to banishment,and whose estate had also been confiscated by king John III. Cuthbert, Bishop and Confessor. SHE was a noble Roman virgin, who glorified God, suffering many tormentsand a cruel death for his faith, in the capital city of the world, inthe third century. She enjoyed the familiarconversation of her angel-guardian, as her life and the process of hercanonization {552} attest.

These stocks, called Nervus, were a wooden machine with many holes, in which the prisoners' feet were faste Soon after certain shepherds discoveredthe saint near his cave, but at first took him for a wild beast; Old age and the fatigues of his journey did notmake him lay aside his accustomed mortifications, by which heconsummated his holocaust. Willibrord and his tencompanions, he penetrated further into {494} the country, and convertedto the faith a consider