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(surnamed Loricatzis, from the iron coat of mail which he constantly wore next to his skin), a famous Italian hermit, who died at Fonta Vellano (Umbria), October 14 1060, had passed. through all the clerical degrees and then devoted himself to a life of soliary penance and extreme austerity, inflicting lashes upon himself daily, and hourly reciting certain Psalms.