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| | pp21/24- Manx Soc vol 7 'Monumenta de Insula Manniae - Vol 2' |
 | | From Manx Soc vol IV,VII and IX Bull of Pope Celestine III to Furness Abbey, 1194 |
 | | A.D. CELESTINE, bishop, servant of the servants of God, to his beloved sons the abbot of Furness, and all his brethren of the Cistercian order serving God, greeting and apostolic benediction. |
 | | The holy Roman church is wont, from a sense of assured piety, to love more sincerely those devoted and humble sons, and, like a pious mother, is accustomed to cherish those, by the safeguard of her protection, whom she knows to be more devoted to the Roman church, and to cleave to her divine obsequies. |
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