Note 101
From Chapter 60 of the Decline & Fall

See the pious robbery of the abbot Martin, who transferred a rich cargo to his monastery of Paris, diocese of Basil (Gunther, Hist. C. P. c. 19, 23, 24). Yet in secreting this booty, the saint incurred an Excommunication, and perhaps broke his oath.

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