De cuius statu vitae, ut ad priora repedantes, paucis quae sunt gesta, memoremus, cum esset puer bonae indolis, atque aetatem moribus transiens, ita se modeste et circumspecte in omnibus gereret, ut merito a maioribus quasi unus ex ipsis amaretur, veneraretur, amplecteretur, ubi quartum decimum aetatis contigit annum, monasticam saeculari vitam praetulit.
Of whose life and behaviour let us briefly make mention what things were done, returning as it were back again to that we have spoken of before. Being a boy of natural goodness and towardness in conduct beyond his years, he shewed such sobriety and prudence in all points that his elders did deservedly love, reverence and cherish him as one of themselves, and when he reached his 14th year, he chose the monastical life rather than the life of the world.
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