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 1 Text|         of Christ, Biscop, called Benedict, with the assistance of
 2 Text| Perceiving also that the reverend Benedict would become a man of wisdom,
 3 Text|           should begin to preach. Benedict did as he was commanded;
 4 Text|         his episcopal throne, and Benedict took upon himself to rule
 5 Text|           the interval of a year, Benedict crossed the sea into Gaul,
 6 Text|   monastery. In the fourth place, Benedict brought with him a thing
 7 Text|    zealous piety of the venerable Benedict, augmented the territory
 8 Text|      which, at the end of a year, Benedict, by the same King Egfrid'
 9 Text|          Apostles. Ceolfrid, whom Benedict made abbot, had been his
10 Text|         Church at Rome; and Abbot Benedict the Great, himself, as Pope
11 Text|           cousin of his own abbot Benedict; and yet such was the singleness
12 Text|          more than of others, and Benedict himself never thought of
13 Text|     thread of the narrative. When Benedict had made this man abbot
14 Text|           lungs. ~Not long after, Benedict himself was seized by a
15 Text|     wasted by a long illness: and Benedict died of a palsy, which grew
16 Text|    according to the rule of Abbot Benedict the Great, and the decrees
17 Text|          that the venerable Abbot Benedict, to lessen the wearisomeness
18 Text|        litter into the room where Benedict was lying on his bed, though
19 Text|           and the other brethren, Benedict sent for Ceolfrid, abbot
20 Text|     another space of four months, Benedict, who so nobly vanquished
21 Text|          advice and assistance of Benedict, founded, completed, and
22 Text|          monasteries, which Abbot Benedict had so actively begun under
23 Text|          of the Geographers which Benedict had bought at Rome, he received
24 Text|          monastery of St. Paul's. Benedict had arranged this purchase
25 Text|          Pope Agatho had given to Benedict. This was brought back to
26 Text|          which the prudent father Benedict bad laid down for himself
27 Text| observance of the rules which St. Benedict had given them, and thereby
28 Text|         his ' youth with the holy Benedict; that not only he might
29 Text|       church near the body of St. Benedict. He did this on Sigfrid'
30 Text|           for, from the time when Benedict began to build his monastery