He openly declared himself a Christian, andwas apprehended and condemned to cruel tortures. He departed to ourLord on the 3d of February, 1190, being one hundred and six years old. KingWemba, falling sick, received penance and the monastic habit from hishands, and recovering, lived afterwards a monk. These books of las Casas, being translated into French, were scattered among the people in the Low
Hermant Schoonbeck, &c. Her name occurs on this day in the ancient breviaryof Autun, and in the martyrologies of Rabanus, Usuard, and Notker: alsoin the Roman. The commentary on the seven penitential psalms Ceillier thinks to be his work: but it seems doubtful. cross, on which he sacrificed himself for us,that he might unite us on it eternally to himself.
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