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GERMANUS: It is a very useful and needful rule that is given for the
kind of works that can be done within the cells. For we have often proved
the value of this not only by the example of your holiness, based on the
imitation of the virtues of the apostles, but also by our own experience.
But it is not sufficiently clear why we ought so thoroughly to avoid the
neighbourhood of our kinsfolk, which you did not reject altogether. For if
we see you, blamelessly walking in all the way of perfection, and not only
dwelling in your own country but some of you having not even retired far
from their own village, why should that which does not hurt you be
considered bad for us?
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