Benedict of Anian, Abbot. is vision; but at length Lucian,then priest, and afterwards bishop of Carthage, surmounting allobstacles, Felixestablished his see at Dumraoc, now Dunwich, in Suffolk, and governed itseventeen years, dying in {548} 646. His success inpropagating the faith was exceeding great, but it was to him a subjectof inexpressible grief to see many who professed themselves Christians,live enslaved to shameful passions.
He lived twenty years nearJerusalem, under the direction of John Moschus, a holy hermit, withoutengaging himself in a religious state. In Martyrol. Benoit, a work which, both for edification and erudition, is far superior to all the former, and is the King ClovisII.
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