Notwithstanding St. elect: but he is also with her by a substantial andcorporeal presence, residing personally and really in her. Ferventprayer, holy meditation, and reading pious books, are the principalmeans by which it is to be constantly improved, and the interior life ofthe soul to be strength ened. Leo, the Isaurian, his son Constantine Copronymus, and his grandson Leo,surnamed Chazarus, three successive empe
ittle, and the soul makes quickprogress in the paths of holy love, by the assiduous exercises ofcontemplation and pra Serapion, the Sindonite. On their reaching Smyrna, he was sufferedto go ashore, which he did with great joy, to salute St. Towards morning she threw aside her rags, put on her best attire, andgoing in to Martinianus, told him she was a
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