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Miracle data
Source name:	BL Mariale 1
Short title:	Childbirth in the Sea
Poncelet Number:	811 - In loco, qui Tumba dicatur, est quaedam ecclesia in honorem
Reference numbers:	book1 no.3
Foliation in source:	f. 109
Incipit:	In loco, qui Tumba dicatur, est quaedam ecclesia in honorem
Summary:	How a woman on a pilgrimage to Mont St. Michel in Normandy was overtaken by the tide, but was protected by the Virgin, who kept off the waves with her sleeve; and how she was safely delivered of a child (II, 602).