simul et reliquias beatorum apostolorum ac martyrum Christi ab eo se sperans accipere, ut dum in gente cui praedicaret destructis idolis ecclesias institueret, haberet in promptu reliquias sanctorum quas ibi introduceret; quibusque ibidem depositis, consequenter in eorum honorem quorum essent illae, singula quaeque loca dedicaret.
hoping withal to receive of him too relics of the blessed apostles and martyrs of Christ, to the end that, when in the nation to which he preached he should erect churches, after the idols were destroyed, he might have in readiness saints relics to put in them; and when these relics had been laid in the same, he might dedicate each several place accordingly in honour of them whose relics they were.
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