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So also, amidst the destruction of the flight of so many men

charged with watching over and providing for the public safety,

others were seen, who, well in body and firm in mind, ever

remained faithful at their post, and some even, who, by an

admirable self-devotion, sustained with heroic constancy cares to

which their duty did not call them.

The most entire self-devotion was especially conspicuous among

the clergy; at the lazarettos, in the city, their assistance was

always at hand; they were found, wherever there was suffering,

always in attendance on the sick and the dying; very often

languishing and dying themselves: with spiritual, they bestowed,

as far as they could, temporal succour. More than sixty clergymen

in the city alone died from the contagion, which was nearly eight

out of nine.