Qui deinde regnante Ecgfrido pulsus est episcopatu, et alii pro illo consecrati antistites, quorum supra meminimus; Romamque iturus, et coram apostolico papa causam dicturus, ubi navem conscendit, flante favonio pulsus est Fresiam, et honorifice susceptus a barbaris ac rege illorum Aldgilso, praedicabat eis Christum, et multa eorum millia verbo veritatis instituens, a peccatorum suorum sordibus fonte Salvatoris abluit; et quod postmodum Vilbrord reverentissimus Christi pontifex in magna devotione complevit, ipse primus ibi opus evangelicum coepit.
And afterward in the reign of king Egfrid, he was deprived of his bishopric and others consecrated bishops in his place, of whom we made mention before; and when he had taken ship to go to Rome and plead his cause before the apostolic pope, he was driven by a strong west wind into Frisia; and being honourably entertained by the barbarous people and their king Aldgils, he preached unto them Christ and instructed many thousands of them in the word of truth, cleansing them from the defilement of their sins in the Saviours font; and he was the first to begin there the work of the Gospel, which the most reverend bishop of Christ, Wilbrord, finished afterward with great devotion.
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