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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England: Book V: VII. Ho...

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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, ed. by A.M. Sellar, [1907] In the third year of the reign of Aldfrid, Caedwalla, king of the West Saxons, having most vigorously governed his nation for two years, quitted his crown for the sake of the Lord and an everlasting kingdom, and went to Rome, being desirous to obtain the peculiar honour of being cleansed in the baptismal font at the threshold of the blessed Apostles, for he had learned that in Baptism alone the entrance into the heavenly life…