Cuius modum continentiae etiam quadraginta diebus ante natale Domini, totidem quoque post peracta sollemnia pentecostes, hoc est, quinquagesimae, semper observare curabat.
And this kind of abstinence he was careful to observe 40 days before Christmas, as also for as many days after the festival of Pentecost was over, that is, 50 days after Easter.
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