Veniens vero Romam, et orationibus ac meditationi rerum ecclesiasticarum, ut animo proposuerat, quotidiana mancipatus instantia, pervenit ad amicitiam viri doctissimi ac sanctissimi, Bonifatii videlicet archidiaconi, qui etiam consiliarius erat apostolici papae; cuius magisterio quatuor Evangeliorum libros ex ordine didicit, computum paschae rationabilem, et alia multa quae in patria nequiverat ecclesiasticis disciplinis accommoda, eodem magistro tradente percepit; et cum menses aliquot ibi studiis occupatus felicibus exegisset, rediit ad Dalfinum in Galliam, et tres annos apud eum commoratus, attonsus est ab eo, et in tanto habitus amore, ut heredem sibi ilium facere cogitasset.
But Wilfrid coming to Rome and applying himself constantly day by day to prayer and the contemplation of ecclesiastical things, according to his first determination, fell acquainted with a very learned and holy man, to wit archdeacon Boniface, who was also counsellor to the apostolical pope; by whose instruction he learned orderly the four books of the Gospels and the true reckoning of Easter, and many other things profitable to the disciplines of the Church, which he could not attain unto in his own country, he understood by the lessons of the said teacher; and when he had passed some months there in the happy exercise of study, he returned to Dalfinus again in France, and tarrying with him 3 years he after took the tonsure of him, and was so entirely loved of him, that the bishop had come to think of making him his heir.
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