The convents of Mount Athos in their present state give us a very accurate notion of the great monasteries of Europe at the close of the twelfth century.
[5] St.Petrus Chrysologus, sermo viii., de jejunio et eleemosyna.

_Da pauperi ut des tibi: da micam ut accipias totum panem; da tectum, accipe coelum._ [6] By what right did he begin to preach?
By what right did he, a mere deacon, admit to profession and cut off the hair of a young girl of eighteen?
That is an episcopal function, one which can only devolve even upon priests by an express commission.
[7] Isaiah i.

10-17.

Cf.

Joel 2, Psalm 50.
[8] The chronicles of Orvieto (_Archivio, storico italiano_, t.
i., of 1889, pp.