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OF THE HOSPITAL

Evast sold his house, and received for it much money. Then in the moft convenient part of the city he built a hospital : with all his income he endowed it, and in that hospital EvaSb and Aloma lived long as servants of the poor of Jesus ChriSl. EvaSt made the sick men who lay in the hospital his care, and Aloma the women. When they had tended the sick and it was the hour to dine, Evaft and Aloma went together to beg for the love of God that which they were to eat on that day, or they dined with some person who might bid them for the love of God. Of naught that belonged to the hospital would they eat nor squander it upon their persons, so they begged for the love of God that whereof they had need to sustain their lives.

2. Great was the example of the worthy life which Evaft and Aloma led, and through their merits God beftowed favours upon many men, and heard the prayers of many sinners in that city, and healed many sick folk in the hospital through the intercessions of EvaSt and Aloma. Through the good example of EvaSt many that had been hardened sinners became penitents, and many men entered the re¬ ligious life. And all the things that Evaft and Aloma did were for a rule and example and exhortation, and caused

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remorse of conscience in the men that saw them and by that which they did they mortified in sinners the seven deadly sins after the manner following.