This Archimandrite’s purpose, holy found.
And after that, with martyr zeal untired, 100
He, in the presence of the Soldan proud
Preached Christ, and those whom His example fired;
And finding that that race no ripeness showed 103
For their conversion, not to toil in vain,
He to Italia’s fields his labours vowed.
On the rough rock ’twixt Tiber’s, Arno’s, plain, 106
From Christ received he the last seal’s impress,
Which he two years did in his limbs sustain.