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Miracle data
Source name:	BL Mariale 1
Short title:	Three Knights
Poncelet Number:	1727 - Tres quidam milites cum odio haberent quendam virum
Reference numbers:	book3 no.10
Foliation in source:	f. 135v
Incipit:	Tres quidam milites cum odio haberent quendam virum
Summary:	How they [the three soldiers] killed a man in a church dedicated to the Virgin; how they were afflicted by internal fire (probably the ‘mal des ardents’); how they were enjoined, as a penance, to wear their weapons bound tight to their bodies; and how the writer of this tale, when he was staying at the house of one Emma, at Amfreville-sur-Iton (Between Rouen and Evreux), met with one of these Soldiers, whose sword had grown into his flesh, and who said that he expected to complete his penance at a certain Church of St. Laurence (II, 613).