Chapter CLVI. How he reprimanded certain brethren who liked going to nunneries

206. Once accordingly when a brother who had two daughters of perfect conversation in a nunnery said that he would gladly be the bearer to that place of some trifling gift on the Saints' behalf, the Saint rebuked him very sharply, inculcating words not now meet to be reported. And so he sent the present by another who refused to go, but did not obstinately persist in his refusal.

Another brother went in winter to a nunnery on some errand of compassion without being aware of the Saint's strong objection to such a visit. When the fact became known to the Saint, he made that brother walk several miles naked when the snow was deep upon the ground.