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AWM.739.024
12-19 Jul 1739:11 (1020)
From the Paris A-la-Main, May 2. They write from Macon,
near Nogent upon the River Seine, that two men digging a
grave in a church-yard there, found a skull which they laid
upon the grass by them; but soon after, perceiving it
stirring, they ran to the Cure (parson) and told him there
was a Saint buried in the place they had been digging. The
Cure immediately posted thither, and to his great surprise
found the skull moving, upon which he cry'd out, a miracle!
a miracle! . . . [11 lines, carried the skull into the
church, people assemble and argue over whose family was
buried there.] The Cure being arriv'd at the church, the
skull was laid on the high-altar, and he begun to sing Te
Deum; but when they came to the verse Te per orben Terrarum,
a mole starting out of the skull discover'd the cause of its
motion; upon which the Cure broke off Te Deum, and the
congregation dispers'd.
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