Book III
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2023
Summary
Here begins the prologue
We have considered it a worthy task to bring into the light what we have decided should not be overlooked through negligence or silence, so that God may be praised and loved more fervently, so that his glorious Mother, our powerful Lady and Queen, may be honoured, and for the edification of our neighbour. For something to endure until the ends of time it must be committed to writing. For given that the Creator of aM has deigned to restore for the praise and glory of his name, should we, whom he fashioned and whose flesh is clay, refuse to show obedience to the divine will and command? Without him we are nothing, and with him and in him we can achieve much. So why should we not attach ourselves to the tower of strength, the fount of wisdom, the plenitude of all good things? Because we are pressed down by our earthly habitation, which is a weight and not a support, we are unable to fix our bleary eyes on the radiance of the sun. But at least let us pause a while in taking delight in his invisible works and with Ms help continue the task that we have begun.
Here ends the prologue
Chapters of the third part
1. The miraculous voyage of some sailors
2. A cured youth
3. A man cured of dropsy
4. The barbarians killed by a falling wall
5. Money entrusted to Our Lady
6. Oxen restored to their owner
7. A punished thief
8. Other thieves who were punished with madness
9. A cured hawk
10. A cured merchant
11. A crippled knight who had blasphemed against the church
of Rocamadour
12. The mill that remained undamaged
13. An epileptic man is cured
14. A knight who broke his vow and was punished by the
reappearance of a fistula
15. A house that did not bum down
16. Another instance of houses that did not burn down
17. A man rescued from drowning
18. A man freed from his chains on the Feast of the Assumption
19. A woman working on Saturday evening
20. An ill man is cured
21. A paralysed woman is cured
22. A squire who miraculously escapes from prison
23. This same man and another are imprisoned anew and again
freed
24. A woman saved from the fire
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- Information
- The Miracles of Our Lady of RocamadourAnalysis and Translation, pp. 177 - 202Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 1999