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Miracle data
Source name: Johannes Herolt
Short title: Devil as Confessor
Poncelet Number: 1519 - Quidam vir multum reverebatur B. Virginem, attamen criminale
Reference numbers: no.62
Rubric/Title in source: Maria liberat animam de portis inferni
Incipit: Quidam vir multam venerabatur B. Virginem, at criminale quoddam peccatum commisit
Notes: Herolt No. 696 A certain man showed great respect to the B.V., but had committed a criminal offence which he had never confessed