He afterwards reproached himself as guilty of pusillanimity. Theprosperity of his reign, both in peace and war, condemn those who thinkthat human policy cannot be modelled by the maxims of the gospel,whereas nothing can render a government more flourishing. ThisMonothelite heresy seemed an expedient whereby to compound with theEutychians. ingfit for nothing but the vilest employs, while his interior by perfectlove and contemplation was absorbed in God.
See his life byF. He dying in 655, when the eldest was only five years old,left her regent of the kingdom. Basil replied to this discourse of St. Berno, the first abbot, his successor St.
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