Note 044 Before the end of the fifth century, the church of St. Maurice, and his Thebaean legion, had rendered Agaunum a place of devout pilgrimage. A promiscuous community of both sexes had introduced some deeds of darkness, which were abolished (A.D. 515) by the regular monastery of Sigismond. Within fifty years, his angels of light made a nocturnal sally to murder their bishop and his clergy. See, in the Bibliotheque Raisonnée (tom. xxxvi. p. 435-438), the curious remarks of a learned librarian of Geneva.

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