The revenues of the monastery, of which a large part was at his disposal, while they gave him the means of supplying his own very considerable expenses, afforded also those largesses which he bestowed among the peasantry, and with which he frequently relieved the distresses of the oppressed.
Így aztán nyugodtan átengedhette magát a vadászat, a lakmározás vagy poharazgatás örömeinek. Ha meglátták, amint hajnalban oson be az apátság hátsó ajtaján, vagy késő éjjel siet haza valami találkozóról, a parasztok mosolyogva a vállukat vonogatták.