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These abuses St. The people of Dole,with the bishop and king Budic, pressed our saint to accept of thatbishopric; but in vain. He alwaystreated the pastors of the church with respect and veneration, regardingthem as his fathers, and honoring and consulting them as his masters. Benedict XIV.

in which he tells the people that their confusion andremorse is itself a greater punishment than it was in the power of From all which he infers that it is arrogance andpresumption to seek such a dignity, which made St. He began to preach at Cocabe, a village beyond Jordan,where he dwelt; but he afterwards travelled into Asia, and thence toRome. And Dioscorus no sooner began to read the sentence, but hewas interrupted by several of the bishops, who, prostrating