Quae cum praefatum quoque monasterium, cui tunc regendo religiosissimus Christi sacerdos, vocabulo Eappa, praefuit, nutu divinae dispensationis attingeret; multique sive de his qui cum antistite illo venerant, sive de illis qui de eadem provincia Saxonum nuper ad fidem fuerant vocati, passim de hac vita raperentur; visum est fratribus triduanum ieiunium agere, et divinam suppliciter obsecrare clementiam, ut misericordiam sibi dignaretur impendere, et sive periclitantes hoc morbo a praesenti morte liberaret, seu raptos e mundo a perpetua animae damnatione servaret.
and when that this plague, by the pleasure of Gods ordinance, touched also the foresaid monastery (which at that time the most devout priest of Christ, by name Eappa, did rule and govern), and that many, whether of them that had come thither with the bishop, or of those that had been lately called to the faith from the same province of the Saxons, were far and near taken from this life, it seemed good to the brethren to keep a fast of three days and humbly to beseech the mercy of God that He would vouchsafe to shew pity toward them, and either to deliver them from this perilous plague and present death, or when they were taken from the world to save their souls from eternal damnation.
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