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La renommée de ces religieux étrangers qui, en vivant de prière et dans une grande austérité, construisaient des maisons et défrichaient la terre, se répandit très rapidement en attirant des pèlerins et des pénitents.
The fame of those foreign religious who, living on prayer and in great austerity, built houses and worked the land spread rapidly, attracting pilgrims and penitents.
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