马埃尔，一个坎布里亚王室的后裔，被送到他的第九个年头的Yvern修道院，使他可能有研究都具有神圣和世俗学习。在14岁，他放弃了他的遗产，以我壮志激情事奉耶和华。他的时间是分散的，根据规则，之间的赞美诗唱歌，语法研究，永恒真理的冥想。
    阿天香水很快披露整个修道院的僧侣美德，当加尔祝福，在Yvern住持，从这个世界离开到下，年轻的马埃尔成功了政府对他的寺院。其中，他建立了一所学校，一间医务室，一宾馆，一建立，工作的各种商店，为建设船棚，他被迫到的僧侣，在附近的土地。用自己的双手，他种植的修道院花园，他在金属工作，他指示的新手，他的生活就像轻轻地滑流，反映了天堂，肥沃田，沿着。
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    Mael, a scion of a royal family of Cambria, was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning. At the age of fourteen he renounced his patrimony and took a vow to serve the Lord. His time was divided, according to the rule, between the singing of hymns, the study of grammar, and the meditation of eternal truths.
    A celestial perfume soon disclosed the virtues of the monk throughout the cloister, and when the blessed Gal, the Abbot of Yvern, departed from this world into the next, young Mael succeeded him in the government of the monastery. He established therein a school, an infirmary, a guest-house, a forge, work-shops of all kinds, and sheds for building ships, and he compelled the monks to till the lands in the neighbourhood. With his own hands he cultivated the garden of the Abbey, he worked in metals, he instructed the novices, and his life was gently gliding along like a stream that reflects the heaven and fertilizes the fields.