Primus autem eiusdem monasterii abbas Petrus presbyter fuit, qui legatus Galliam missus, demersus est in sinu maris qui vocatur Amfleat, et ab incolis loci ignobili traditus sepulturae: sed omnipotens Deus ut qualis meriti vir fuerit demonstraret, omni nocte supra sepulcrum eius lux caelestis apparuit, donec animadvertentes vicini, qui videbant, sanctum fuisse virum qui ibi esset sepultus, et investigantes unde vel quis esset, abstulerunt corpus, et in Bononia civitate iuxta honorem tanto viro congruum in ecclesia posuerunt.
Moreover, the first abbot of the same monastery was one Peter, a priest, which being sent legate unto Gaul was drowned in a creek of the sea called Amfleat, and buried after a homely manner of the inhabitants of the same place. But Almighty God intending to have it known how worthy a man he was, made that every night there appeared a light from heaven upon the place where he lay buried, until the neighbours about, which saw the light, gathering thereby that he was some holy man that was buried there, and searching out what and from whence he was, removed his body from thence, and buried it in the church in the town of Boulogne according to the honour convenient for so worthy a person.
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