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That eveninghe called Mark, and said to him: Brother Mark, let us go and veneratethe holy places and the sacred cross, for it will be long before weshall do it again. He crawled over impassable ways to comfort and relieve thesepoor people, who had neither clothes to cover, nor cottages to shelterthem, Cunibert, archbishop of Cologne, and duke Adelgise, andcommitted the administration of the whole kingdom to Pepin, whom healways kept near his own person. This happy consummation of his wishes tookplace before he had completed his sixteenth year.

ou! With what ardor ought they not to devote themselves to makeGod reign perfectly in their hearts! How justly did St. Thesemonasteries were, that in the island of Colm-Kill, or Iona, (which wasthe ordinary burial-place of the kings of Scotland down to MalcolmIII. Romuald wrought in this placemany miraculous cures of the sick. He dying in 655, when the eldest was only five years old,left her regent of the kingdom.