Near the church stand several chapels, formerly resorted towith great devotion: the principal is that of St. at the ahbey ofSt. The president, exasperated at his answer, gave orders forhim to be put into an engine, like a screw-press, which the tyrants hadinvented to torment the faithful. They earnestly wished that he might be released atthe request of the people.
AnselmBadagius, a Milanese, bishop of Lucca, was chosen pope in 1061, and tookthe name of Alexander II. ir wants; and when he was only a private monk, he earnestlyrecommended this charity to the superiors. Agobard, l. Willibald and Winebald; was born in the kingdom of the West-Saxons inEngland, and educated in the monastery of Winburn in Dorsetshire, whereshe took the religious veil.
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