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When told that they were Angles, he exclaimed, “Not Angles, but Angels,”--“Non Angli, sed Angeli”--and he insisted on their ransom and instruction to become the apostles of their countrymen.
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Sumner quotes Pope Gregory's famous remark about the Angles, emphasizing the importance of their rescue and conversion.
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