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Miracle data
Source name:	BL Mariale 1
Short title:	Chartres Saved by the Virgin's Shift
Poncelet Number:	81 - Anno dñicae inc. 898 Rollo primus dux Normannorum, qui iam
Reference numbers:	book1 no.5
Foliation in source:	f. 112v
Incipit:	Anno dominicae incarnationis octingentesimo XCVIII
Summary:	How Rollo the Norman, when besieging Chartres, was encountered by the Bishop, ‘Walchelinus’ with the Virgin’s shift displayed as a banner; and how he and his men were struck with blindness; but how, when the Christians behaved cruelly, the shift disappeared, and the Normans recovered their sight ( II, 603).