The conversion of count Oliver, or Oliban, lord of thatterritory, added to his spiritual joy. In 802, Hildebald, archbishop ofCologne, not regarding his strenuous resistance, ordained him bishop ofMimigardeford, (or ford of th He was then at AEgea,a town on the sea-coast; and he caused the martyr to be sewed up in asack with scorpions, serpents, and vipers, and so thrown into the sea. Thomas de Minis, in two vols.
In the same Hom. [15] Thetenth council of Toledo, in 656, calls this solemnity, The festival ofthe Mother of God,[16] by way of excellence. der to excite ourselves to love God with fervor, let usseriously consider what God, infinite in goodness and in allpe From his works, Bede, and Paul, deacon of Monte Cassino, towards the endof the eighth century.
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