This close solitude was to our saint an uninterruptedexercise of divine love, praise, and compunction; in which he enjoyed aparadise of heavenly delights, unknown to the world. They endeavored to pull off his habit, but heresisted them so violently that they conducted him in it to the seat ofhis parents, called Rocca-Secca. r, for alms may be given for them, from which they receivesome relief or mitigation of their pains. At other times he ordered him to drawwater a whole day and pour it out again; to make baskets and pull themto pieces; to sew and unsew his garments, and the like.
The retiredness and severity of his life, joinedwith a hypocritical exterior of virtue, a superficial learning, and afluency of words, gained him some reputation in the world. Sainte-Aulaire and Sainte-Aulaye are names of two ancientFrench families taken from this saint. , Celestine I. Bathildes.
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