Following that life, he crawled back to the monastic life, seeking succour for his troubled soul.
Faced with a sudden bereavement, few would seek succour from an eight-year-old.
Leading chains will also seek succour back in the markets that bred them, where profit margins and spending per person are higher.
Indeed, music plays an interesting role in the story and Stephen ships over his vinyl collection, seeking succour in songs after his beloved bird has gone.
Clean-up TV campaigners seeking succour in Ofcom's new broadcasting rules suffered an immediate blow today when the regulator gave the all-clear to programmes about "sex with animals".
Continuing the recession theme, Sarah Beeny's property makeover show Property Ladder gets its own makeover in Property Snakes and Ladders (June, Channel 4), which follows budding developers through the housing market meltdown, and bankrupt businesses seek financial succour from entrepreneur Sir Gerry Robinson in Gerry's Big Decision (July, Channel 4).
Not doing evil, I'd contend, includes standing up to anyone - even the European Court of Justice – who seeks to give wrongdoers the succour of wiping their misdeeds from digital history.
Could it be that Daniel Ortega, a man with a worldwide reputation as a serial child-molester, has really sought solace in divine succour?
Overall, though, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, which keeps tabs on such things, reports that illegal activities by extremists are down to 20 incidents a year from a peak of 615 in 2004.Other reforms give some succour to those seeking to reduce animal suffering.
The ground behind will be inscribed with an 1857 quote from Sir William Howard Russell, then war correspondent of the Times: "I trust that England will not forget one who nursed the sick, who sought out her wounded to aid and succour them, and who performed the last offices for some of her illustrious dead".
