Patermucius Becomes Abbot

This man’s faith and devotion were so acceptable to God that they were immediately approved by a testimony from God. For it was at once revealed to the superior that by this obedience he had copied the deed of the patriarch Abraham. And when, shortly afterward, that same abbot of the monastery departed out of this life to Christ, he preferred Patermucius to all the brothers and left him as his successor and as abbot of the monastery. [a]