red to fly, as much as this mortalstate would permit, whatever could interrupt his commerce with God. On their reaching Smyrna, he was sufferedto go ashore, which he did with great joy, to salute St. His incomparable book, On the Pastoral Care, which is an excellent instruction of pastors, and was drawn up by him when he saw himself placed in the pontificate, consists of four parts. But at sixteen years of age he renounced all theadvantages which the world promised him, to dedicate himself to God in areligious state, in 547.
On his return he collected large alms among the Christianstowards this charitable undertaking. This was thefoundation of the order of charity, in 1540, which, by the benedictionof heaven, has since been spread all over Christendom. His eyes, generallyshut, opened frequently to rest upon the mild image of Our Lady, whosepicture was opposite him. Beaugendre, who published the works of Marbodius at Paris, in 1708.
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