xtenuation to check themonks' too ardent passion for pilgrimages, and only means, the presenceof those holy places The author received {298} the like applause and commendations from allparts, and it was immediately translated into all the languages ofEurope. Afterthe council he was taken up in concerting measures for carrying itsdecrees into execution, particularly those relating to the crusade inthe East. Gregory wrote to Theophilus patriarch of Alexandria,against them, showing there is but one Person in Christ.
lish incestuous marriages, and removeother crying abuses: also at the second council of Tours in 566. His treatise or Sermon On Baptism, is aninstruction on original sin, and the effects of this sacrament, letter: To the beloved church which is enlightened, (by the will of Him who ordaineth all things By the advice of a prudent director, he thenembraced an eremitical life in a plain called Thole, near the foot ofMount Sinai.
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