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Miracle data
Source name: Dominic of Evesham
Short title: De revelatione Nativitatis sanctae Mariae
Poncelet Number: 1664 - Solitarius quidam fuit vir magnae modestiae et praeclarae
Reference numbers: no.7 no.
Foliation in source: f. 144v
Rubric/Title in source: De revelatione Nativitatis sanctae Mariae
Incipit: Solitarius quidam fuit vir magnae modestiae et praeclarae vitae
Notes: "No existe fuente conocida para esta narración. Y no podemos admitir la afirmación de E.F. Wilson, de que 'the earliest text of the traditional origin of the Nativity of the Virgin seems to be that of Honorius of Autun, died, c. 1150.'" José María Canal, El Libro 'De Miraculis Sanctae Mariae' de Domingo de Evesham (m.c. 1140)," Studium Legionense 39 (1998), 247-283 at 274, n. 24.