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BNL.739.017
14-21 Jun 1739:11,12 (1839)
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 where they had been digging.
The cure immediately posted thither,and to his great
surprize found the skull moving, upon which he cry'd out, a
miracle!. . . [3 lines] [He] order'd all the bells to be
rung, . . . [7 lines] 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,
terrarus, a mole starting out of the skull discover'd the
cause of its motion; upon which the cure broke out Te Deum
and the congregation dispers'd.
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