Neque vero me haec ita prosecutum aestimes, quasi eos qui hanc tonsuram habent, condemnatos iudicem, si fide et operibus unitati catholicae faverint: immo confidenter profiteor, plurimos ex eis sanctos ac Deo dignos exstitisse, ex quibus est Adamnan abbas et sacerdos Columbiensium egregius, qui cum legatus suae gentis ad Aldfridum regem missus, nostrum quoque monasterium videre voluisset, miramque in moribus ac verbis prudentiam, humilitatem, religionem ostenderet, dixi illi inter alia conloquens:
But I would not have you think either that I have gone so largely into this matter, as though I judge them condemned which use this manner of shaving, if they tender catholic unity in faith and deed: nay, I boldly affirm that many of them have been holy men and worthy of God, of the which Adamnan, abbot and notable priest of the followers of Columba, is one, to whom, when he was sent embassy for his own country to king Aldfrid and having been desirous to see our monastery also, shewed in his behaviour and talk wonderful wisdom, lowliness and godliness, I said amongst other things in discourse:
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