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fpincer paeftm on J>am ecan ebleane gefcon. j^pa ;f ic beo gemet fa- mob on blij-pa eoppej- e&leanef :• Beah J)e ic mi5 eop f pmcan ne mse- ge pop^an J)e ic pille rpmcan :• Kjuftmup ))a mi& hif gepepum O F S. G RE G O RY. 3 I " for your Souls Health, fo
" nitions. Almighty God " through his Grace pro-
" I may behold the Fruit
^' Eternal Reward, and that
" your Reward. Becaufeal- '^ tlio' I cannot labour with ^' you, yet I have a Good- " will to (hare with you in " your Labour. ^ Augufiinus then with his Companions, ^ Thefe were the Stages of Augujl'me's Journey with his Fellow- tabourcrs. From Rome to LerJna, a litcle Ifland, now St. Honorap* From thence to Maffilta^ now Marfalles^ where Serems was Bifliop, whom they faluted, giving him a Letter from St. Gregory. After that they went ta-^r /ex, and vificed K/V^i/mx the Archbifhop, and Vicar of the Holy See, to whom they were mod powerfully recoitlmended by the Pope. Then they went to Vmna^ the Bifliop whereof was Deftderius^ one of thofe to whom Gregory fent Letters for their Recommendation. Thence 'tis likely they proceeded to Lugdumm^ now Lms in France^ cho' we find no Letter to Etherius^ who was Bifliop there. Thence they (et forward to Cabillon, now Chalons^ the ufual Refidence of King Theoderk and Brunkhilda. To both of thefe St. Gregory com- mends Auguflin and his AfTociates in particular Letters. Hence they took their courfe to Akguftodunum^ now Autun^ in the Dukedom of Burgundy^ there to defire the Afliftance of Syagrius the Bifliop, and to deliver the Pope's Letters. After having paffed through feveral other Places, they arrived at laft either at Divodurum Mediomatrkum^ or Durocortum Kemorum^ the Seat of Theodebert King of Auflrafia^ with whom he very earneftly follicites by his Letters for the kind Receptioa |
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