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sione Ecclesiastici, Sanctus Marinus cum S. Aniano, nepote suo ex 

 sorore : ille sacerdos et Episcopus, hie Archidiaconus : qui ambo ad mo- 

 dum Abrahae patriam cognatosque post se relinquentes, voluntario exilio, 

 et mundum sibi, et se mundo crucifixerunt. Transfretantes enim mare 

 quod Hiberniam secernit a Germania, venerunt peregrinantes in urbem 

 Romanam, vel ut proprise saluti consulentes, devotionis suae, limina 

 beatorum Apostolorum, Petri ac Pauli frequentando, satisfacerent desi- 

 derio : vel at Apostolicse Sedis, si quern forte Deus pastorem in earn re- 

 poneret, authoritate confirmati, preedicando errorum zizania authorita- 

 tive evellerent, et bonum verbiDei semen in cordibus audientium inser- 



erent JS'am ubi Romam venerunt, non alta regum palatia, 



non porphyreticas statuas, non arces triumphales mirabantur, sed salu- 

 tato eo qui tunc a Domino in eam sedem constitutus erat Pontifice, 

 SS. Apostolorum limina frequentare, specus ac templa reliquorum Sanc- 

 torum visitare, votaque sua Deo ofFerenda ipsis commend are, unica illis 

 voluptas erat. EtD. Laurentii memoria adeo delectabatur Marinus, ut 

 ab eo tempore, quo ejus reliquias veneratus erat, simile sibi mortis genus 

 pro Christi nominis gloria semper optaverit, atque a Deo ardentibus 

 votis, si ejus voluntas esset, expetierit. Accepta autem ab Eugenio'^' 

 Summo Pontifice benedictione, cum authoritate ubilibet prsedicandi ver- 

 bumDei, via qua venerant, revertebantur. Anvero in societate D. lo- 

 doci ipsi quoque fuerint, incertum est : qui cum esset filius regis Bri- 

 tannige opulentissimus, amore Christi, regnum et omnem gloriam ejus 

 circa idem tempus reliquit, et eremum intravit, ubi soli Deo serviens, 

 miraculis claruit. Superatis igitur Alpium montibus, mox in vasta qua- 

 dam eremo Boioariae, JN'oricse provincise subsidentes, pedem figunt ad 

 ipsas radices Alpium. Erat locus ille in quo consederant, ad quietem et 

 contemplationem aptus, sed hominibus non prorsus impervius, omnis 

 generis lignorum copia ac pascuis uberrimis pecudum gregibus valde 

 accommodus. Quae res occasionem dedit, ut diu latere non possent, 

 sicut nec ipsi optabant." Finding their labours among the pastoral in- 

 habitants of the neighbourhood successful, they resolved upon settling 

 in this region for the rest of their days, and erected huts for themselves 

 over two caves about two Italian miles asunder. Here they led a life of 

 solitude and self-mortification, meeting only on Lord's days and festi- 

 vals, when they joined in the services of the altar. And thus they con- 

 tinued, teaching both by precept and example, and crowned with suc- 

 cess in their endeavours to convert the surrounding people, until at 

 length a horde of barbarians,! driven from the Roman provinces on the 

 south, entered this territory, and proceeded to lay it waste. In their 

 wanderings they arrived at the cell of S. Marinus, and the Life thus re- 



* Engenius 1. succeeded Martin as Pope in the year 654. 



t The Life calls them Vandali, but Raderus suggests Sclavi or Venedi as the proper 

 designation, "Bavaria Sancta," torn, i., p. 91. Aventinus states that Anianus et divus 

 Marinus were slain by the Boii, under Theodor, " Annales Boiorum," lib. iii., cap. 2, 

 §10. 



