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   many instances are recorded in his life. In his old age in 1002, he   
   retired to Tusculum, near Rome, where he died in 1005, being about 96   
   years old. A community was formed in that place after his death,   
   called of Grotto Ferrata, at Frescati, which still follows the rule of   
   St. Basil.   
      
   See the life of St. Nilus, compiled by a disciple of the saint in   
   Baronius, Annal. t. 10. Fleury, l. 57. n. 5. D’Andilly Saints   
   Illustres. Barrius De Antiquitate Calabriæ cum notis Thomæ Aceti, l.   
   5. c. 2. p. 362, 366. St. John of Meda. Richard Dict, p. 318.   
      
      
   Saint Quote:   
   God does not command us to live in hair shirts and chains, or to   
   chastise our flesh with scourges, but to love Him above all things and   
   our neighbor as ourselves.   
   -- Saint Charles of Sezze   
      
      
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    Repose in God, O my soul   
      
   "Repose in God, O my soul. He is the eternal repose of the saints.   
   Beloved Jesus, let me find repose in Thee, not in creatures: not in   
   health, in beauty, in honors, in glory. Not in power and dignity. Not   
   in riches, honors, and knowledge. Not in merit and aspiration. Not   
   even in Thy own gifts and rewards. Not even in the transports of   
   spiritual gladness; not in the angels and archangels and the whole   
   host of heaven: not in anything visible or invisible, not in anything   
   which is not Thyself, O my God. All Thou canst give me outside of   
   Thyself, all that Thou dost discover of Thyself to me, is too little.   
   It does not suffice me if I do not see Thee, if I do not possess Thee   
   fully, if I do not rest in Thee alone."   
   --Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Ch 21   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)