JOHN OF GOD, C. The usurer is no wayprofitable to the republic, neither by tilling the ground, by trade,&c. The ardor of divine love which the saint breathes throughout thisletter, is as inflamed as the subject is extraordinary. Thesaint, being then at his prayers, told the officer that he would followhim as soon as he had finished them.
He was archdeacon of this last church when he received an orderfrom the pope to preach the crusade for the recovery of the Holy Land. It rests now in theDominican's church at Thoulouse, in a rich shrine, with a statelymausoleum over it, which reaches almost up to the roof of the church,and hath four faces. Pope Celestine styles him, Thegenerous defender of the church and faith, the Catholic doctor, and anapostolical man. Sheldon, of Weston.
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