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Part 2. The Brothers Assemble

Saint Brendan, therefore, when fourteen brothers out of his whole community had been chosen, shut himself up in one oratory with them and spoke to them, saying:

"From you who are dear to me and share the good fight with me I look for advice and help, for my heart and all my thoughts are fixed on one determination. I have resolved in my heart if it is God's will — and only if it is — to go in search of the Promised Land of the Saints of which father Barrind spoke. How does this seem to you? What advice would you give?"

They, however, having learned of the holy father's will, say, as it were with one mouth:

"Abbot, your will is ours. Have we not left our parents behind? Have we not spurned our inheritance and given our bodies into your hands? So we are prepared to go along with you to death or life. Only one thing let us ask for, the will of God."

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