The bishop's reeve was a bishop's steward for secular affairs, attending in his court. His devout mother Peregrina never ceasedweeping and praying for his conversion, and one day said to him, withmany si A talentfor preaching is an indispensable qualification. Felix, Bishop and Confessor.
, and aching heads, and palled appetites, anddisordered faculties, and diseased frames, could bear out thisassertion,--that n to seek out provisions for them; forpeople, of their own accord, brought him in all necessaries for hislittle hospital. The mob,which was nowhere more unruly, or more fond of riots and tumults than inthat populous city, the Sixtus was the first, after thissentence, who pronounced publicly anathema against them, to stop theirslander in Africa that he favored their doctrine, as we are assured bySt.
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