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Source name: Paris Mariale 1
Short title: Sight Given to a Blind Child at Westminster
Poncelet Number: 750 - In Britannia maiori famosa metropolis, Lundonia nomine
Reference numbers: no75
Incipit: In Britannia majori famosa metropolis Lundonia nomine
Summary: “How Stephen, Keeper of the Virgins’s altar in St. Peter’s Church in a Western suburb of London (sc. Westminster Abbey), was told by a woman with a blind child that the Virgin had sent her to him; how he was instructed to wash the feet of an image of the Virgin and Child and to moisten the eyes of the child with the same water; and how the child gained his eyesight.” Ward, Ro. II, 645, #6.