Romuald lived, when he first established these hermits. Their cells, built of stone, have each a little garden walled round. A constant fire is allowed to be kept in every cell on account of the coldness of the air throughout the year; each cell has also a chapel in which they may say mass.” See also note 595 . The legend of St. Romualdus says that he lived to the age of one hundred and twenty. It says, also, that in 1466, nearly four hundred years after his death, his body was found still uncorrupted; but that four years later, when it was stolen from its tomb, it crumbled into dust. ↩

• In that sphere alone; that is, in the Empyrean, which is eternal and immutable. Lucretius, Nature of Things , III 530, Good’s Tr. :⁠— “But things immortal ne’er can be transposed, Ne’er take addition, nor encounter loss; For what once changes, by the change alone Subverts immediate its anterior life.” ↩
• Genesis 28:12:⁠— “And he dreamed, and, behold, a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and, behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.” ↩