Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints (1902)
D'Anvers, N., d. 1933 · London : G. Bell & sons · leaf 80
Proconsul the body of St. Vincent wasflung into a marsh outside the city, to be devoured by wildbeasts; but, adds the legend, a raven came and protectedit from injury, driving off all who approached it. It wasthen sewn up in a sack and taken out to sea, where it wasflung overboard with a millstone… … Alinari photo\ [Palazzo Fuhblico, Siena ST. ANSANOBy Sodoma To fact p. 48 ST. VINCENT 49 burying it beneath the sand, as they do all things left to theirministrations. Many years afterwards the sacred remains werediscovered by some Christians, who took them to Valencia,where they were re-interred…
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