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Miracle data
Source name: BL Mariale 1
Short title: Fire at Mont St. Michel
Poncelet Number: 492 - Est et alia quaedam ecclesia in honore S. Michaelis constituta
Reference numbers: book2 no.15
Foliation in source: f. 125v
Incipit: Est et alia quaedam ecclesia in honore sancti Michaelis in monte qui dicitur tumba in periculo maris
Summary: How a wooden image of the Virgin, at the Church at Mont St. Michel, escaped unhurt when the church was burnt by lightning (II, 608).