¹ Saint Oudoceus, a servant of Christ, devoted from childhood to good and holy things of mind, constant in fasts, vigils, and prayers for an eternal reward, after visiting the thresholds of the blessed Apostle Peter, went to the place of Saint David, and from there, turning aside through the church of Saint Theliaus, took with him certain relics acquired there. And when, being on a journey, he encountered robbers, and they, hoping that he had an abundance of treasure, wished to plunder him, they were struck with blindness; and, repenting, at the prayer of Oudoceus they received the sight of their eyes. Moreover, when he had been made bishop and was traveling with his companions, he asked that water be handed to him from a vessel by certain women who were washing butter. But they, speaking mockingly, replied that they had no other vessel except butter. The bishop, however, taking the butter from them and shaping it in the manner of a little bell, drank from it, and it remained in that form—namely golden—so much so that to those who see it, it appears to be of the purest gold; and from that day it is preserved in the church of Llandaff as a testimony of the miracle. A certain king, while hunting and pursuing a stag, when the stag fled to the cloak of the saint, the king, seeing this miracle with his hunters, humbly sought pardon from the servant of God and granted to him the whole territory. At length, the man of God, having laid aside pastoral care, built a monastery near a water called the Wye, and, a great multitude of brothers having been gathered together, leading a life for many years in great abstinence and holiness, he showed examples of virtues and of all sanctity to the brethren even to death. He departed to Christ on the sixth day before the Nones of July.

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¹ A certain old man desired a cucumber; and when he had taken it, he hung it before his eyes, and lest he should be overcome by desire, he did not touch it, but rather did penance, punishing himself because he had desired it. Abba Zeno, while walking in Palestine, being weary, sat down near those who were gathering cucumbers from a garden, and he wished to eat of them. He said within himself: “Do you not know that thieves go to punishment? Test yourself, therefore, whether you can endure torments.” And rising up, he stood in the heat for five days, and said: “Truly I cannot endure torments; therefore I ought not to steal and eat.” A certain old man said: “Anger arises through these four actions: through the desire of greed, by giving and receiving, by seizing the goods of others; also if anyone defends by his own judgment that which he loves; and if anyone considers himself worthy of honors; and if anyone wishes to be thought a teacher, wiser than all. Through these four things anger darkens the human senses: if one has hatred toward his neighbor, or if he regards him as nothing, or envies him, or speaks ill of him. Hear John the Evangelist saying: ‘He who hates his brother is in darkness and does not know where he goes, and remains in death.’” [1 John 2:11; 1 John 3:14]