Afterwards seeing the province thrown into confusion by the irruptions of the pagans,(389) and foreseeing that the monasteries would also be in danger, he left all things in order, and sailed over into Gaul, and being there honourably entertained by Clovis, king of the Franks,(390) or by the patrician Ercinwald, he built a monastery in the place called Latineacum,(391) and falling sick not long after, departed this life. The same Ercinwald, the patrician, took his body, and kept it in the porch of a church he was building in his town of Perrona,(392) till the church itself should be dedicated. This happened twenty-seven days after, and the body being taken from the porch, to be re-buried near the altar, was found as whole as if he had died that very hour. And again, four years after, when a more beautiful shrine had been built to receive his body to the east of the altar, it was still found without taint of corruption, and was translated thither with due honour; where it is well known that his merits, through the divine operation, have been declared by many miracles. We have briefly touched upon these matters as well as the incorruption of his body, that the lofty nature of the man may be better known to our readers. All which, as also concerning the comrades of his warfare, whosoever will read it, will find more fully described in the book of his life. Chap. XX. How, when Honorius died, Deusdedit became Archbishop of Canterbury; and of those who were at that time bishops of the East Angles, and of the church of Rochester. [653 A.D.] In the meantime, Felix, bishop of the East Angles, dying, when he had held that see seventeen years,(393) Honorius ordained Thomas his deacon, of the province of the Gyrwas,(394) in his place; and he being taken from this life when he had been bishop five years, Bertgils, surnamed Boniface,(395) of the province of Kent, was appointed in his stead. Honorius(396) himself also, having run his course, departed this life in the year of our Lord 653, on the 30th of September; and when the see had been vacant a year and six months, Deusdedit(397) of the nation of the West Saxons, was chosen the sixth Archbishop of Canterbury. To ordain him, Ithamar,(398) bishop of Rochester, came thither. His ordination was on the 26th of March, and he ruled the church nine years, four months, and two days; and when Ithamar died, he consecrated in his place Damian,(399) who was of the race of the South Saxons. Chap. XXI. How the province of the Midland Angles became Christian under King Peada. [653 A.D.]