knew it he went hastily thither. And when Valerian, bishop of Hippo, heard his renomee and fame, he ordained him a priest in his church, howbeit that he refused it much and wept. And anon he established a monastery of clerks, and began to live under the rule of the apostles; out of which monastery were ten chosen to be bishops. And because the said bishop was a Greek and but little lettered and taught in Latin tongue, he gave power to Augustin for to preach before himself, against the manner of the church oriental. And therefore many bishops despised him, but he raught not if he did it to be done by the said Augustin, that which he could not do himself. In that time he convanquished Fortunatus the Priest, a Manichean, which was a heretic, and many other heretics, which namely were rebaptized Donatists and Manicheans; all these he confounded and overcame. Then the blessed Valerian doubted lest Augustin should be taken away from him, for to be made and required to be a bishop in another city. And he would have gladly offered to him his bishopric, but he supposed that he would have fled into some secret place, whereas he should not have been found. And then he impetred of the archbishop of Carthage that he might cease and leave his bishopric, and that he would promote Augustin to be bishop of the church of Hippo. But when Augustin heard that, he refused it utterly in all manners: nevertheless he was constrained and so coacted that he took at the last the cure of the bishopric.
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