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“ ter, made a vow to build a chapel and“ have mass said to appease her manes ; but“ having forgotten this vow, he was awaken-“ olie morning by a terrible apparition.“ He saw the dragon of Palestine living“ and clinging around him in slimy folds,'“ the chains which he had brought from his“ slavery, fell before him with a great noise“ from the place where they had been“ hung; a phantom pale but beautiful,“ which he knew for his daughter, appeared“ in the instant, to save him. The monster“ fled at the first mysterious sign which“ she made, and casting a look of ( affection“ and grief upon her father* she disappeared.“ This prodigy was followed by a second;“ his trusty valet rushed into his chamber“ with a small image in his hand, which“ one of the oxen had kicked up in the“ field while ploughing, and which cried“ three times Noth Grottes (besoin de“ Dieu.J

“ He built the convent of Noth Grottes ,“ where the image was found, and in it