Cum vero et Laurentius Mellitum Iustumque secuturus ac Brittaniam esset relicturus, iussit ipsa sibi nocte in ecclesia beatorum apostolorum Petri et Pauli de qua frequenter iam diximus, stratum parari, in quo cum post multas preces ac lacrymas ad Dominum pro statu ecclesiae fusas, ad quiescendum membra posuisset atque obdormisset, apparuit ei beatissimus apostolorum princeps, et multo illum tempore secretae noctis flagellis artioribus afficiens, sciscitabatur apostolica districtione, quare gregem quem sibi ipse crediderat, relinqueret, vel cui pastorum oves Christi in medio luporum positas fugiens ipse dimitteret.
When now Laurence also was ready to go after Mellitus and Justus and forsake Britain, he commanded, the very night before he went, his bed to be laid in the church of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul, of which church we have oftentimes before spoken; where, when after many his prayers and tears poured forth to the Lord for the state of the Church, reposing his body to rest and going to sleep, the most blessed chief of the apostles appeared to him, and scourging him with sharp stripes a great while in the close and secret night, sought to know with apostolic severity, why he should forsake the flock which he himself had committed unto him, and to what shepherd, running now away himself, he would leave the sheep of Christ beset in the midst of wolves.
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