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and Norway, the nourisher of the Church, protector of the renowned Academy of Copenhagen, but also the generous and most splendid Danish Nobility; and may He keep you pure from the contagion of the world, irradiate you with the splendor of virtues, and enlighten you with the light of doctrine, for the praise of God and the utility of those Kingdoms and the Commonwealth.
From the Basel Academy, the day before the Kalends of October September 30th: the day on which Jerome, the Ecclesiastical writer, died in Bethlehem in the 91st year of his life, in the year 422 of the Christian Epoch. Eight years after him, Aurelius Augustine died gloriously in the defense of the grace of Christ against Julian the Pelagian, in the 76th year of his age and the 40th of his episcopate. It is said that when the city of Hippo was besieged by the Vandals, he, standing in his death agony, said among other things: