De quodam miraculo beate virginis.
A Beheaded Bandit's Cry for Confession
In 1302, a bandit devoted to the Virgin Mary, though beheaded, miraculously cried out for a priest to hear his confession before death, fulfilling the mercy he had daily begged of her.
In the year of our Lord 1302, a certain bandit, devoted however to the Virgin Mary, was beheaded at Perugia in Italy, whose head, already severed from the body, cried out in a loud voice: "Bring me a priest, because blessed Mary, just as I begged her in my prayers poured forth each day, does not allow me to die before I confess all my sins" — and so it was done.
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Anno domini mcccii quidanr latro, devotus tarnen virgini Marie, Perusii ini302 Italia decollatus fuit, cujus caput jam precisum de corpore'1 clamavit alta voce: afferte mihi sacerdotem, quia beata Maria, prout eam in oracionibus meis singulis diebus fusis rogavi, non sinit me mori, antequam confitear omnia pcccata mea, et sic factum fuit.
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