Dicebat enim hanc esse consuetudinem eorum, a quibus normam disciplinae regularis didicerat, ut accepta nuper loca ad faciendum monasterium vel ecclesiam, prius orationibus ac ieiuniis Domino consecrent.
For, as he said, the custom of them of whom he learned the trade of monastical life was that, when places had been newly obtained for making a monastery or a church, they should first consecrate them to the Lord with prayer and fasting.
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