1. Pompa Perditorum – Textus Latinus cum Translatione Anglica(Pars Prima)

Pompa Perditorum – The Latin Text

Quid in epīscopātū Lexoviēnsī, in capite Jānuāriī contigerit cuidam presbyterō, praetereundum nōn aestimō, nec comprimendum silentiō.

In vīllā, quae Bonavallis dīcitur, Gualchelmus sacerdōs erat, quī ecclēsiae Sānctī Albīnī Andegavēnsis dēserviēbat.

Hic annō Dominicae Incarnātiōnis 1091 in capite Jānuāriī accersītus, quendam aegrōtum in ultimīs parochiae suae terminīs noctū vīsitāvit. Unde dum sōlus redīret, et longē ab hominum habitātiōne remōtus īret, ingentem strepitum velut maximī exercitūs coepit audīre.

Lūna quippe octāva in signō arietis tunc clārē micābat, et gradientibus iter dēmōnstrābat.

A Daniele Petterson scripta

The Procession of the Dead – English Translation

I consider that I ought not to suppress and pass over in silence what happened to a certain priest of the diocese of Lisieux, in the beginning of January.

In a village called Bonneval there was a priest named Walkelin who served the church of Saint Aubin of Anjou.

At the commencement of the month of January 1091, this priest was summoned in the night time to visit a sick man who lived at the furthest extremity of his parish. As he was pursuing his solitary road homewards, far from any habitation of man, he heard a great noise like the tramp of a numerous body of troops, and thought within himself that the sounds proceeded from the army of Robert de Bellême on their march to lay siege to the castle of Courcy.

The moon, being in her eight day in the constellation of the Ram, shed a clear light so that it was easy to find the way.

Written by Daniel Petterson