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Source name: Paris Mariale 1
Short title: King Louis Witnesses the Cures at Soissons
Poncelet Number: 12 - Accidit ergo vice congrua, gratia aliquando dispensante divina
Reference numbers: no73
Incipit: Accidit ergo vice congrua, gratia aliquando dispensante divina
Summary: “How King Louis of France (prob. Louis VIII, b. 1119)…was brought to believe in miracles by seeing the wondrous cures, in the cathedral at Soissons, of victims of the mal des ardents.” Ward, Ro. II, 644, #4.