She stands in need of an extraordinary aid from above, both for herselfand her child. Cyril teaches that baptism perfectly remits all sin; but penance, theremedy for sins after it, does not quite efface them, as wounds that arehealed leave still scars. I shall be happy, sayshe, if I can present hairs; and shall rejoice to see others addornaments of purple, or gold tissue. Sigebert, and in the rest of France by his youngest son Clovis II.
She gave up her pure soul toGod, after a short illness, on the 18th of January, in the year 1271,and of her age the twenty-eighth. 7, 27, 30. Jerom makes an elegantcomparison between her death and that of Praetextatus, a heathen, who wasthat year appointed consul, but snatched away by death at the same time. Julian and Victoricus exhorted a long while the brethren to peace,and recommended to their care the whole body of the clergy, thoseespecially who had undergone the hardships of imprisonment.