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Miracle data
Source name:	BL Mariale 1
Short title:	Jew of Bourges
Poncelet Number:	1222 - Postquam infidelissima gens Iudaeorum gravissima mole
Reference numbers:	book1 no.1
Foliation in source:	f. 101v
Incipit:	Postquam infidelissima gens iudeorum
Notes:	This summary and all following ones are from H.L.D. Ward, Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1893), Vol. II.
Summary:	How a child of Jewish parents told them that he had gone into a church and received the Eucharist; and how he was thrown by his father into an oven, but was preserved alive by the Virgin (Ward, II, 601).