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meritis nos a fluctibus indemnes eriperet, et in medio procellae
conquievi modicum, et ecce vidi dominum Gregorium per singulos
nautas incedentem, animantem eos et docentem, et singula corri-
- gebat. Excitatus igitur omnia reperi summa tranquillitate, silentia
meritas Domino persolvi gratias. Hoc de ipso postmodura ab-
bati suo Haiuelino* retuli, quod ipse cum multa gratiarum actione
multis intimavit. Hoc autem Gillebertus de Laci,t vir illustris,
qui se templo donaverat, audiens, exemplo mei cum prsedicti Ore-
gorii precibus et benedictione Jerosolimara petiit, et in mari Graeco
similiter ipsi contigisse postmodum narravit.
De beato Petro Tarentasice. iii.
Vidi postmodum beatum Petrum archipreesulem Tharentha-
sioe, J qui montes inter Alpinos residet, virum tantse virtutis et tot
illustrem miraculis, ut meritis antiquorum quos in ecclesia colimus
patrum sequalis possit justissime prcedicari^ cujus manu Dominus
solo tactu et prece curabat infirmos, dfemonia eifugabat,
nee attemptavit quod non perficeret. Hie per dies undecim cum
Anglorum rege domino Henrico secundo apud Lemovicas § moram
fecit, cujus ego curam a rege suscepi, et regiis interim exi-
* Hamelinus was abbot of Gloucester Louis VII. of France, who were then at
from the 26th of September, 1148, to the war, and he is said to have performed
10th of March, 1179. many miracles before the two monarchs-
t This was the first Gilbert de Lacy, See Gallia Christiana, vol. xii. col. 706,
the partizan of the empress Matilda in We learn from Hoveden, Annal. p. 532,
the civil wars of the reign of Stephen, that at the beginning of this year the
He afterwards became a templar, and the archbishop of Tarentaise was present at
date of his death appears to be uncertain. the espousals of prince John (Henry's
+ Pctci,who for his ascetic piety was younger son) with Aalis daughter of the
canonized by the church of Rome, and count of Maurienne ; and, as the English
who was universally believed to have had king went to Auvergne for this purpose, it
the power of working miracles, was arch- is probable that he was accompanied on
bishop of Tarentaise from 1141 to his this journey by Walter Mapes, and that
death in 1174. In 1173 he was commis- they made a brief stay at Limoges, as nar-
sioned by pope Alexander III. to attempt rated in the text.
a reconciliation between Henry II. and § Limoges.