His career as abbot lasted about twenty or twenty-five years during which he attained a high reputation for his wonderful gifts as an extempore preacher and for his stern asceticism.
Today, all major international organizations, as well as any conference or government that uses more than one official language, uses extempore simultaneous interpretation.
As an advocate, he was laborious fluent and convincing always ready as an extempore speaker yet excelling most when his thoughts had been first written or printed.
