Et post longos amplius XL. annorum labores curasque continuas, quibus monasteriis regendis abbatis iure praefuit, incomparabili virtutis amore quasi nuper ad conversationem vitae caelestis accitus, ultima confectus aetate, et prope iam moriturus, rursus incipit peregrinari pro Christo, quo liberius prisca sollicitudinum secularium spineta, camino spirituali fervens compunctionis ignis absumat.
And after the long travail of more than 40 years, and the continual cares he had in ruling the monasteries over which he was made abbot, being as it were newly summoned for his unequalled love of virtue to the conversation of heavenly life, in his extreme old age and even now at the point to die, he is beginning again to be a pilgrim for Christs sake, that so the burning fire of repentance may the more readily consume in the spiritual furnace the former thorns of worldly cares.
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