A.D. 714. ACCOUNT OF SAINT OTJTHLAC. 347. ritual arms with all faith, and manfully fought for the Lord. And there was in the island a mound composed of earth of the fields, in the side of which there appeared to be something like a cistern, where the servant of God made himself a cabin, in which he began to Uve, wearing garments of neither linen nor wool, but clothed only in skins. And so great was his abstinence, that he only took a small portion of barley bread, and a cup of water after sunset. But on a certain day, when he was applying himself to bis usual study of meditation, two devile in human dress suddenly stood by him, who addressed him familiarly in the following manner : " We have seen your faith, and your fortitude, and invincible patience, and therefore we will give over disquieting you, and moreover we wish to instruct you in the way of life of the ancient hermits. Moses, and Elias, and other fathers of antiquity, pleased God by much abstinence. Therefore, you must keep afoot, not for two days, or three, but rather for a whole week, that as God formed the world in six days and rested on the seventh, so man ought, to replenish his spirit by fasting six days, and eat on the seventh, and so refresh his body." The man of God having heard this, replied as follows : " Let them be turned backward, who seek my soul to destroy it." And presently, according to his daily custom, he took a small piece of barley bread,—but the evil spirits retired, and filled all the place with their sad lamentations. A short time after this event, while the blessed man was, according to his custom, watching, during the dark night, and intent on his prayers, foul spirits filled the whole of his cell, and in a moment they bound the man of God, and cast him out of his cell, and threw him into the muddy water of the black swamp. Then, having taken him up and carried him over very rough ground, they dragged him on till they nearly dislocated all the joints of his body. At length they stopped him for a while, and laid injunctions on him to depart from that habitation. But he replied, " The Lord is on my right hand, that I shall not be moved." They took him up a second time, and began to scourge him with whips, made as it were of iron, and when they had scourged him, and afflicted him with all kinds of tortures, they carried him up into the air, where the heaven appeared to be black with the multitude of unclean spirits. And they immediately united, and bore the servant of Christ to the jaws of hell. He, beholding the tor