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PG-P.729.032
4 Sep 1729:21,22,31,32 (36)
Father Nicolo of Narni was a celebrated preacher, and had
generally a quick eye in the pulpit over the female part of
his audience. He was one day preaching at Catanea in
Sicily, when among the rest of his auditory, he spy'd out a
very agreeable young woman, named Agatha, wife to one
Ruggieri, a physician, and was immediately enamour'd with
her beauty. . . [3 columns, arranged assignation, husband
comes in unexpectedly, escapes, but without his breeches.
Thinking quickly, Agatha explains that the breeches are the
holy relick that cured her ailments; the order declares the
miracle of St. Griffon's breeches in the house of Ruggieri.]
The fathers set forward in great solemnity than before,
and singing an anthem, march'd round the city, accompany'd
with a numberless croud, and then placing the relick on the
altar of their chappel, left it there, as an object of
devotion. . .
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