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Cantiga 054 of the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X

The Monk who was Healed by the Virgin’s Milk
A monk dutifully observed the canonical hours and was devoted to the Virgin.

He was afflicted with a disease of the throat that caused his face and throat to swell. He could not swallow food and the sores “smelled worse than a cadaver.”

The other monks, thinking his death was imminent, decided to perform last rites.

The Virgin appeared to the monk and cleansed his sores with a napkin. She sprinkled milk from her breasts on the monk’s mouth and face and his complexion cleared.

The Virgin assured the monk that she had come to heal him and promised him that when he died he would go to Paradise [lit: “where St Catherine is”]. Then she departed.

The monk who had been ill got up, and the other monks assembled to marvel at his miraculous cure.


Source: upenn.edu


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