Translation of "parare" into English

Cives statim omnia ad urbem defendendam parant.

The citizens immediately prepared everything to defend the city.

1° una cum externis cooperatoribus causis sibi commissis studere atque Positiones super virtutibus vel super martyrio parare;

1. to study the causes entrusted to them, together with collaborators from outside the Congregation, and to prepare the Positions on virtues or on martyrdom;