Temperance
Moderation and self-denial in bodily comforts, especially regarding food and physical indulgence. Lapide refused any exceptional food despite frail health and advanced age; Van der Burch was always first in choir even in the bitterest cold.
Preliminaries
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THE LIFE OF CORNELIUS A LAPIDE.
— Lapide refused any exceptional food despite frail health and advanced age; "nothing could have seemed gentler than he, nothing more modest, nothing more temperate."
"Nothing could have seemed gentler than he, nothing more modest, nothing more temperate."
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— Van der Burch was always first in choir "even in the depths of winter, in the most bitter cold," indulging his body no rest.
"even in the depths of winter, in the most bitter cold, even when you returned home wearied from a pastoral visitation abroad, indulging your body no rest"