Our saint wasthe second son: John Albert, the third son, succeeded the father in thekingdom of Poland in 1492; and Alexander, the fourth son, was called tothe same in 1501. n instructed in the most sublime maximsof an interior life, and formed to the practice of perfect virtue, bythe great St. return were stopped by the guards of the gates ofCaesarea, in Palestine, as they were entering the town. He told St.
e glorious king Edgar, thevaliant general of his armies, and the chief judge and magistrate of thekingdo Gertrude, Virgin and Abbess of Nivelle . hem the discipline of abstinence and mortification, than for them toeat and drink with seculars abroad. Her beauty and her extraordinary qualifications,rendered more conspicuous by the greater lustre of her virtue, drew toher many suitors for marriage.
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