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125 This Indian Advocate. the church contains are the two additions which he made to the mass. We call these additions most touching, be cause they seem to breathe that spirit of suffering and hopelessness of all human comfort and relief which char acterizes St. Gregory physically and politically. Besides his Pastorals, already alluded to, his Morals on Job, were almost learnt by heart by such saints as St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bernard, and in later days, were the favorite reading of St. Teresa. His Homilies on Ezechiel and on the Gospels are scarcely less known. And yet for a perfect study of the mind of this great Saint, as well as for a complete picture of the position and work of the Roman Pontiff in his time, we must turn to the four teen books of his Epistles, in number as many as eight hundred and forty-four. Many of these are almost for mal letters of business, and there are of course many repe titions in the series. But it would hardly be possible to exaggerate their historical value as illustrating the points which we have just mentioned. - Then the four books of the Dialogues, which form interesting and edifying reading. St. Gregory died on the 12th of March, and was inter red in St. Peter's; he was succeeded by Sabinian, 604, A. D. For several years before his death, disease and pain had made his existence a long martyrdom. "I expect and de sire death, he wrote, in 600, as my only remedy. uUt sit memoria ejus in benedictione. Let his memory be blessed as one of the great Pontiffs who ruled the church of God, in wisdom, and with glory! BENEDICTINE NEWS. Rt. Rev. Hildebrand de Hemptihne, Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Order sent a request, dated March 21, to all Benedictine Abbots to attend, either personally or through a Delegate, the dedication of St. Anselm's Inter national Benedictine College at Rome. The dedication will take place on the feast of St. Martin of Tours, Nov. 11th, of the present year. ..(. At