The son fled from the father.

The brother avoided the brother.

Still there were not a few examples of the most generous and self-sacrificing devotion.

Medical skill was of no avail whatever, and the churches were thronged with the multitudes who, in the midst of the dying and the dead, were crying to God for aid.

Multitudes in their terror bequeathed all their property to the church, and sought refuge in the monasteries.
It truth, it appeared as if Heaven had pronounced the sentence of immediate death upon the whole human family.
Five times, during his short reign, Simeon was compelled to repair to the horde, to remove suspicions and appease displeasure.