Ælfric

“ He arose then straightway, and went up to the priest,
and made the sign of the cross on his wounds, and said to him boldly,
'In the Creator's name who created man out of the earth,
arise thou sound, and go out quickly,
to thy wall-building, and finish it well.'
He arose then sound, as if aroused from sleep,
and began to wonder how he had been brought thither. ”

“ So all the work of the monastery was ended within eight years,
and also hallowed with high solemnity.
Then Florus remembered what he had at first intended,
and what he had vowed to God when he began the monastery,
and besought leave for himself from his royal master,
that he might turn from the deceitful riches,
and dwell in the monastery which he had wrought,
and spend his life according to Maurus' direction,
and live holily in God's service,
and so merit the bliss eternal. ”

“ Then all the nobly-born men devoted themselves
to the monastic work in Maurus' monastery;
some also committed their sons to him
for God's service, until there were gathered together
one hundred and forty monks in all.
Then said the abbot and all the brothers,
that no more monks could dwell there,
lest victuals should fail the brothers,
but that the tale (of 140) should always continue,
neither less nor more, in the monastic life.
It befell thereafter, that the blessed Florus
departed from the world, full of glory, to Christ,
in the thirteenth year after he became a monk. ”