Gisela, sister to the emperor Charlemagne, abbess of this house, rebuilt the great church, which some pretend to be the same that is now standing. Such was hisreputation, that Charlemagne always expressed a particular desire thathe should be present In his agony, he tenderly exhorted his religious to perseverance,and concluded with those words of the psalmist: _Our Lord hath sentredemption to his people; he hath commanded his covenant forever_. dappearance and sumptuous living, now leading an obscure, solitary,penitential life in humility, penance, fasting, cold, and labor.
e intention already mentioned, offalsifying the scripture prophecies, those of Daniel and Christ, whichhis actions sufficiently evidence. See Gallia Christ. From the authentic acts of his martyrdom in Ruinart, Henschenius, andTillemont, t. Soon after he was raised to this dignity, thepeople of Palestine and Arabia, in the time of a great drought a
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