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Miracle data
Source name: BL Mariale 1
Short title: Hildefonsus of Toledo
Poncelet Number: 590 - Fuit in Toletana urbe quidam archiepiscopus, qui vocabatur
Reference numbers: book2 no.1
Foliation in source: f. 115v
Incipit: Fuit in toletana urbe quidam archiepiscopus qui vocabatur hildefonsus
Notes: Book II begins with a prologue: Ad omnipotentis dei laudem cum sepe recitentur sanctorum miracula
Summary: How he [Hildefonsus] used to wear an alb that had been given him by the Virgin; and how his successor, Siagrius, died when venturing to put it on (II, 604).