Otho was crowned king of Germany in937, {590} and emperor at Rome in 962, after his victories over theBohemians and Lombards. Wesuffer much for the world, and we count labor light, that we may attainto the gratification of our avarice, ambition, o He often met with the like plots and assaults from several ofhis own disciples, which procured him the repeated merit, though not thecrown, of martyrdom. If it has broken down the gates of hell, unboltedthose of paradise, destroyed the empire and weakened the powers of
This holy pope had labored many years under a great weakness of hisbreast and stomach, and was afflict Stilting, the Bollandist, in the life of St. Synesius, ep. Footnotes:1.
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