Gregory did not forbear to exhort the people, and to pray till such timeas the distemper ceased. Queen Ermenilde and her two sons, Wulfade andRufin, were grievously afflicted at the news. assion for the poor and for sinners, his extreme loveof poverty, never reserving any thing for himself, and the extraordi To put this design in execution, about the year 714, he retired to theabbey of Jumiege, on the banks of the Seine, in the diocese of Rouen.
Footnotes:1. He had despised all things for the love ofheaven. 5,inter Act. FROM her infancy she was a model of humility, meekness, modesty, anddevotion.
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