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Once Aldhelm 3 was in Dover, looking at goods brought from the coast of Gaul to England. He noticed a book containing the complete text of the Old and New Testaments, but the sailors refused to sell it to him for the price he offered and abused him verbally. Although Aldhelm 3 was not offended, God took revenge and brought out a terrible storm, so that the sailors' boat was about to be swallowed by the sea. Aldhelm 3 pacified the storm, and was offered the book as a free gift; he, however, paid for it a sum nicely judged so that he neither took advantage of paupers nor rejected the prayers of suppliants. |
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