In hoc etenim semper quadragesimae tempus agere, in hoc quadraginta ante Dominicum natale dies in magna continentiae, orationis et lacrymarum devotione transigere solebat: in quo etiam venerabilis praedecessor eius Cudberct priusquam insulam Farne peteret, aliquandiu secretus Domino militabat.
For there was he wont always to keep the time of Lent, and there the forty days before the Lords nativity in great devotion of abstinence, prayer and tears: in which place also his venerable predecessor Cuthbert, before that he went to the isle of Farne, did sometimes do warfare for the Lord apart.
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