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There was another man from Spain, who for his sins was so afflicted that he twitched most horribly in all his limbs.

According to his own account he contracted this infirmity through bathing in the river Ebro.

With their assistance he zealously carried out the mission with which he was charged, and by sound doctrine and miracles converted a large part of Germany to the faith.

How admirable is the life of nuns, who beneath their veils give birth to children and exercise at one and the same time the function of mothers and priests, baptising those to whom they have given birth.

" Then she sent to the monastery and ordered them to bring the little spoon which she usually used at table; and when it was brought to her she blessed milk and poured it drop by drop down the throat of the sick nun.

Whatever she heard or read she committed to memory, and put all that she learned into practice.

When she was not praying she worked with her hands at whatever was commanded her, for she had learned that he who will not work should not eat.

He said that no consideration should be paid to her weakness and that she must not count the long years that lay ahead of her; she must not count the spiritual life to be hard nor the end difficult to attain, for the years of this life are short compared to eternity, and the sufferings of this world are as nothing in comparison with the glory that will be made manifest in the saints.

She understood from the subsidence of the ground how the dead woman had been punished, and judged the severity of God's sentence upon her from the sinking of the grave.