cum venisset in oppidum suprascriptum provincialium sacerdotum praevio partim, partim comitante collegio, scilicet ut municipio summus aliquis antistes ordinaretur, cuius ecclesiae disciplina nutabat, postquam iunior episcopus Paulus discesserat decesseratque, exceperunt pontificale concilium variae voluntates oppidanorum, nec non et illa quae bonum publicum semper evertunt studia privata;
When he arrived at the aforesaid town he was partly preceded and partly escorted by the priests associated with him in the province. Their purpose, you must know, was the ordination of a man as chief priest of that community, where church-discipline had been shaky ever since the junior bishop Paulus departed from the place and from the world. The episcopal council was received by the townsmen with a conflict of wills and some of those personal interests which are always subversive of the public weal.
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