A Dictionary of Miracles: Imitative, Realistic, and Dogmatic; With Illustrations (Classic Reprint)

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St. Gregory the Great (dialogues, bk. Ii.) gives a remarkable instance. While St. Benedict was building the monastery of Mount Cassino, the monks thought the kitchen was on fire, and ran to tell St. Benedict, but the saint soon proved to them that the fire was wholly in their own imaginations.

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