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| Chapter IV. Of the miracle which Abbot Abraham wrought on the breasts of a woman.
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Chapter IV.
Of the miracle which Abbot Abraham wrought on the
breasts of a woman.
Why also need I mention
the acts of Abbot Abraham,1949
| 1949 Possibly the same
person as the author of Conference xxiv., but nothing further appears
to be known of him. | who was
surnamed ἁπλοῦς, i.e., the simple,
from the simplicity of his life and his innocence. This man when he had
gone from the desert to Egypt for the harvest in the season of
Quinquagesima1950
| 1950 i.e. the fifty days
from Easter to Whitsuntide; cf. the note on the Institutes, II.
xviii. | was pestered with
tears and prayers by a woman who brought her little child, already
pining away and half dead from lack of milk; he gave her a cup of water
to drink signed with the sign of the cross; and when she had drunk it
at once most marvellously her breasts that had been till then utterly
dry flowed with a copious abundance of milk.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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