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SEVERAL Scottish missionaries passed into the northwestern parts ofGermany, to sow there the seeds of the faith, at the time whenCharlemagne subdued the Saxons. Dom Morice endeavors to prove that the Welsh, the old British, and the Celtic, are the same language. The saint built andendowed the monasteries of St. Bennet, by the earnestness with which he set himself to study thespirit of his holy rule and state, gave a proof of the ardor with whichhe aspired to Christian perfection.

SAINT ALEXANDER, B. Gisela, sister to the emperor Charlemagne, abbess of this house, rebuilt the great church, which some pretend to be the same that is now standing. He lives in cities as if he were in awilderness; so little notice does he take of the things of this life. {343}FEBRUARY III.