On arriving at the proper age, he was ordained priest, and soon after retired into a forest, where he built himself a cell, and resided as a hermit. Soon five little hermitages clustered around his cell, and a church was built for the accommodation of the anchorites. But his superiors recalled him to the monastery to undertake the charge of the novices, and somewhat later he was appointed superior of the house at Piedimonte di Agila, which had risen under his care. He suffered about this time from extreme dryness. It was to him as though the face of God were turned away from him, and he felt agonies of fear, thinking that through want of judgment or unbecoming example, he might have retarded the advance, and perhaps lost some, of the souls of the novices who had been entrusted to his care. But one of the brethren who had lately died appeared to him in a vision, and comforted him, assuring him that his novices were all leading an edifying life. He was afterwards appointed Superior of the convent, an office in which he displayed great judgment, but which withdrew him too much from spiritual meditation and reading to be congenial with his tastes. At his request he was relieved of the office of Superior, and was again made director of the novices, and fulfilled the duties of this office for four years. He died on March 5th, 1734, in the convent of S. Lucia, at Naples. [Illustration: MARRIAGE OF THE VIRGIN. After a bas-relief by Orcagna.] March 6. S. MARCIAN, _B.M. at Tortona_, _circ._ A.D. 120. SS. VICTOR, VICTORINUS, CLAUDIAN AND BASSA, _MM. at Nicemedia and Apamea_, _3rd cent._ S. QUIRIACUS, _P.C. at Treves_, _4th cent._ S. EVAGRIUS, _Patr. of Constantinople_, _end of 4th cent._ S. SEZIN, _Ab. in Brittany_, _6th cent._ S. FRIDOLIN, _Ab. of Sickingen_, _end of 7th cent._ SS. KYNEBURGA, KYNESWITHA AND TIBBA, _VV. at Peterborough_, _end of 7th cent._ SS. BALTHER AND BILFRED, _HH. at Lindisfarne_, _circ._ A.D. 756. S. CHRODEGANG, _B. of Metz_, A.D. 766. SS. FORTY-TWO MARTYRS, _under the Saracens, in Syria_, _circ._ A.D. 841 S. CADROE, _Ab. at Metz_, A.D. 988. B. OLDEGAR, _B. of Barcelona, and Archb. of Tarragona_, A.D. 1137. S. COLETTE, _V. at Ghent_, A.D. 1447. S. SEZIN, AB. IN BRITTANY. (6th cent.) [Venerated in Brittany, patron of the parish of Guic-Sezni, in the diocese of S. Pol-de-Léon.]