Qui cum die quadam tale aliquid foris ageret, digressis ad ecclesiam sociis, ut dicere coeperam, et episcopus solus in oratorio loci lectioni vel orationi operam daret, audivit repente, ut postea referebat, vocem suavissimam cantantium atque laetantium, de caelo ad terras usque descendere: quam videlicet vocem ab euroaustro, id est, ab alto brumalis exortus, primo se audisse dicebat, ac deinde paulatim eam sibi adpropiare, donec ad tectum usque oratorii in quo erat episcopus, perveniret: quod ingressa, totum implevit atque in gyro circumdedit.
And on a certain day, as he was doing some such thing abroad, his fellows being gone to church, as I began to say, and the bishop being alone in the oratory of the place, occupied in reading or prayer, this Owin heard suddenly, as he after told, a most sweet noise of voices singing and rejoicing come down from heaven to the earth: the which voice, he said, he first heard beginning from the south-east, that is, above the region of the winter sunrise, and then by little and little drawing near him, until it came up to the roof of the oratory where the bishop was: and there it entered, filling it within and compassed it all round about.
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