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The complaints of his kindred, who thought the dignity of the

house degraded by his plain and simple habits of life, were

unavailing. He had another conflict to sustain with the

ecclesiastical authorities, who wished to impel him forward to

distinction, and make him appear as the prince of the place. From

all this, however, he carefully withdrew himself, although at the

time but a youth.

[31] Saint Charles Borromeo.