Nam maxima exercitus multitudo undam lavacri salutaris expetiit, et ecclesia ad diem resurrectionis Dominicae frondibus contexta componitur, atque in expeditione campestri instar civitatis aptatur.
For the greatest part of the army required the water of the health-giving laver, and against the day of the Lords resurrection they made the likeness of a church framed of leafy boughs, and so prepared it for an army in the field as it had been in a city.
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