approaching day of that great rebirth in Christ, the day on which he was to be officially received into the fold of Christ2 by St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. Far from the tumult of the world, his mind would be free from the cares that spring from ambition for honors, from the acquisition of riches, and from the pursuit of pleasures. Thus, he tried to throw off the last links that still connected his mind and heart with the life he had lived, and his ‘infant tongue began to prattle with his God, his