Pauli mihi indebile nomen- una cum caradere affig-nari
depofco.”
His two fons were baptized at the fame time, his eld-
eft being eleven, and the youngeft only two years of
age. His father had been dead fome time in the Jewiih
religion,. and his mother ftill continued fo with remarkable
fteadinefs, though ihe yielded at laft to the argu7
merits of her fon, but his wife was inflexible; for which
reafon the marriage was diffolved, and Paulus took upon
him the clerical habit, purfued his itudies with new
zeal, and foon after went to Paris, where he received the
degree o f mailer o f arts, and continued writing to his
late wife, ufing every argument to convince her o f the
fublime truths o f the Chriftian religion, in which at laft
he had the happinefs to fucceed. He then fet out for
Avignon, was made archdeacon of Trevino, in the fee o f
Burgos, and a canon of Seville. At the age of fifty-two
king Henry the third o f Caftile, appointed him biihop
o f Carthagena, and he became fo great a favorite with
that monarch, that he made him chancellor o f the kingdom,
one o f the executors o f his will, , and tutor to his
fon and heir* John, then only two years, of age, and afterwards
king of Caftile: finally Paulus was nominated
to the fee o f Burgos with univerfal approbation, which
he refufed for a twelvemonth, but at laft acquiefced, and
took poffefllon of, in 1415, being fixty-five years o f age.
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