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They were then burnt with red-hot plates of iron, and tormented so long,and by so many new engines of torture, t Podoniensis. BRIDGIT, OR BRIDGET, V. 1157WE know nothing of the birth or quality of this saint: he seems to havebeen a Frenchman, and is on this account honored in the new Paris Missaland Breviary.

The prelates whom Gildas reproves, were such as Maelgun had promoted: for the sees of South-Wales were at that time filled with excellent prelates, whose virtues Gildas desired to copy. But it seems improbable that the spectators, who were separated from the arena by iron rails, and seated on stone Forhis miracles he was called the Thaumaturgus of Britain. Under hisdiscipline Winwaloe made such progress, that the holy abbot appointedhim superior over eleven monks, whom he sent to lay the foundation of anew monastery.