Et Benedictus per triennium languore paulatim accrescente tanta paralysi dissolutus est, ut ob omni prorsus inferiorum membrorum factus sit parte praemortuus, superioribus solum sine quorum vita vivere nequit homo, ad officium patientiae virtutemque reservatis;
and Benedict was so weakened during three years with the ailment of a creeping palsy, that he was utterly dead in all the lower part of his body, the upper parts alone (without life in which a man may not remain alive) being preserved for the exercise of the virtue of patience;
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