Quo in tempore, Hrofensis ecclesia pastorem minime habebat, eo quod Romanus praesul illius ad Honorium papam a Iusto archiepiscopo legatarius missus absorptus fuerat fluctibus Italici maris: ac per hoc curam illius praefatus Paulinus invitatione Honorii antistitis et Eadbaldi regis suscepit ac tenuit, usque-dum et ipse suo tempore ad caelestia regna cum gloriosi fructu laboris ascendit.
At which time the church of Rochester was without a pastor, because that Romanus the prelate thereof, being sent from the archbishop Justus as legate to pope Honorius, had been drowned in the waves of the Italian sea; and so for this cause the aforesaid Paulinus, at the offer of Honorius the bishop and Eadbald the king, took the charge thereof and held it until he himself too in his due time ascended to the heavenly realms with the fruit of his glorious travail.
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