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The quarrel as to what great order could claim
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His patron Milo having also died, he established himself at Rome, where he studied the rules of the religious houses of the city. After a four years' sojourn he obtained a Bull from
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authorizing him to found an institute resembling that of the solitaries he had frequented in
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in 1189. His liturgical feast occurs on 8 February.
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