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From his two original lives, written, the one by a disciple, the otherby Peter Andrew Castagna, a friar of his Order, one hundred years afterhis death. See Dom Mege, Vie de St. William of Maleval, Hermit, and Institutor of the Order of Gulielmites. Yet in the {483} time of this public calamity, most of them,regardless of the danger of their own lives to assisting others,visited, relieved, and attended the sick, and comforted the dying.

By these fiery trials, God purified his heart fromall earthly attachments, and perfectly crucified it to the world. Peter Damien, printed in three volumes, at Lyons, in 1623, consist of one hundred and fifty-eight letters, fifteen sermons, five lives of saints, namely, of St. imitating his example and virtues; and in ourstudying to walk continually in the divine presence, fin Agatha are said to be distributed in many places.