The practical element was emphasized in the ascetical school with St . Augustine as its chief representative, in whose footsteps followed Gregory the Great and Bernard of Clairvaux.
42.
At Christendom, he teaches courses in History and Theology, such as The History of the Papacy, The History of Ireland, and Ascetical and Mystical Theology.
43.
Demetrias, who was about fifteen years old in 413, was to be married, but she secretly followed an ascetical way of life, influenced by Augustine.
44.
Both St . Thomas and St . Bonaventure speak the same language, and the ascetical writers of all subsequent centuries have faithfully followed in their authoritative footsteps ( cf.
45.
Schram's " Institutiones theol . mystic?" ( 2 vols . ) combines asceticism with mysticism, though the author is at his best in the ascetical parts.
46.
In his " Paradoxa ad profligandas haereses ex divi Pauli epistolis selecta ", he wrote against the Huguenots, but soon turned to writing ascetical commentaries on the Psalms.
47.
On the whole, he wrote with more historical criticism than most of his contemporaries, though as a hagiographer he at times sinks to the level of an ascetical novelist.
48.
St . Josemar�a always said that he has the same cooking pot for his children : classes on doctrine, ascetical formation, spiritual direction, recollections, retreats, etc.
49.
After John's death Simeon gave full rein to his ascetical practices and Emperors Justinian I and Justin II ( see fragments in P . G ., LXXXVI, pt.
50.
Within a century of the death of St . Francis, members of the Third Order began to live in common, in an attempt to follow a more ascetical way of life.
