Read the _Letters_ written by the holy Father St. John Chrysostom to
different people after his unjust and inhuman banishment. The most
useful of them are the seventeen addressed to the pious deaconess
Olympias,[462] and those to Innocent,[463] pope of Rome, in which
he relates all that had happened to him, as far as he was able to
do so in the form of letters. These letters are characteristic of
the man. The style is brilliant, clear, persuasive, somewhat florid,
and agreeable. The letters to Olympias, however, seem to have been
written with greater care; the importance of the matters discussed,
to which the epistolary style is not adapted, necessitates a
corresponding dignity of composition.