This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... also his familiar bird, which, however, came to receive its food instead of bringing food to him. St. Gregory the Great, in his biography of Benedict, records that, while still at his first monastery of Subiaco, a raven from the neighbouring forest came to the saint at every meal and was fed out of his own ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... also his familiar bird, which, however, came to receive its food instead of bringing food to him. St. Gregory the Great, in his biography of Benedict, records that, while still at his first monastery of Subiaco, a raven from the neighbouring forest came to the saint at every meal and was fed out of his own hand.3 1 " Habebam unnm ex fratribus ducem locorum peritum.... Fera paulu-Itun modesta.... Acoepit tam libere quam ullum animal domesticum; et cum comedisset, abscessit.... Alium seque singularem virum vidimus in parvi tugurio... lupa ei solita erat adstare ccenanti... panem qui coenula; superfuisset.... Mann blanda caput triste permulcet."--Sulp. Sever., Dial., i. o. 7. 1 " Cum suo illo, ut semper frequentissimo... comitatu, mergos in flumine conspicatur.... Forma, inquit, hsec dsemonum est.... Ita grege facto omues in unum illse volucres congregate... non sine admiratione multorum."--Sulp. Sev., Eput., iii. The popular name of Martins-ptcheun given to these birds is probably derived from this legend. 3 " Ad horam refectionis illius ex vicina silva corvus venire consueverat, et panem de manu ejus accipere."--S. Greg. Maon., Dial., ii. 8. These tales, piously recorded by the highest genius which the Church has possessed, prepare us to listen without surprise to many other traits of the familiar intimacy of the monks with the inferior creatures. Sometimes wild sparrows, as the legend goes, came down from the trees to gather grains of corn or crumbs of bread from the hand of that abbot Haixent before whom Clovis knelt, on his return from his victory over Alaric; and the nations thus learned how great was his humility and gentleness.1 Sometimes other little-woodland birds came to seek their food and to be caressed by that Walaric who will shortly...
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