The next letter is addressed to the same nobleman and his wife on the death of their son. It gently points out to them that his migration to the coelestia regna, where among the angels he has put on the garment of immortality, is cause for joy.
[336] Opusc. ix., De eleemosyna (Migne 145, col. 207 sqq.).
[337] Opusc. ix., De eleemosyna, cap. i.
[338] Seneca, De vita beata, 20.
[339] Lib. viii. Ep. 8 (Migne, Pat. Lat. 144, col. 476). Cf. ante, p. 260.
[340] Extracts will be given post, Chapter XVI., together with Damiani’s remarkable Life of Romuald.
[341] Migne 158, col. 50 sqq.
[342] Anselm was born in 1033 and died in 1109. His works are in Migne 158, 159. See also Domet de Vorges, S. Anselme (Les grands Philosophes, 1901).
[343] “Districtio ordinis,” Vita, i. 6. This indicates that liberal studies were not favoured in Cluny at this time, cir. 1060.
[344] In a convent where there is an abbot, the prior is the officer directly under him.