OF THE ABBEY TO WHICH HE WAS CALLED AND OF THE PERSECUTION HE HAD FROM HIS SONS, THAT IS TO SAY THE MONKS, AND FROM THE LORD OF THE LAND While I was thus afflicted with so great perturbation of the spirit, and when the only way of escape seemed to be for me to seek refuge with Christ among the enemies of Christ, there came a chance whereby I thought I could for a while avoid the plottings of my enemies.

But thereby I fell among Christians and monks who were far more savage than heathens and more evil of life.

The thing came about in this wise.

There was in lesser Brittany, in the bishopric of Vannes, a certain abbey of St.Gildas at Ruits, then mourning the death of its shepherd.

To this abbey the elective choice of the brethren called me, with the approval of the prince of that land, and I easily secured permission to accept the post from my own abbot and brethren.