multa diu secum mente versans, utilius decrevit, dato fratribus praecepto, ut iuxta sui statuta privilegii iuxtaque regulam sancti abbatis Benedicti, de suis sibi ipsi patrem qui aptior esset eligerent, et ipse beatorum apostolorum ubi iuvenis cum Benedicto fuerat Romae loca sancta repeteret:
after much pondering a long time in his heart, he judged it better to enjoin the brethren, in accordance with the decrees of their privilege and the rule of the holy abbot Benedict, to choose out of their number a fitter man to be their father, and determined himself to revisit the holy places of the blessed apostles at Rome, where in his youth he had been with Benedict:
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