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me, I give you this grace which you have 

 afked, and likewife many others." And 

 their converfe ended, v^rhich had lafted for 

 a great fpace, the Archangel Saint Michael 

 departed thence, leaving him exceeding 

 comforted. 



In the time of this Holy Brother Peter 

 lived the Holy Brother Conrad of Offida, 

 who, fojourning together with him in the 

 fame Convent of Forano in the territory 

 of Ancona, the faid Brother Conrad went 

 forth one day into the wood to medi- 

 tate on God, and Brother Peter went fe- 

 cretly after him to fee what might befall 

 him ; and Brother Conrad began to lift up 

 his voice in prayer, to pray moft devoutly 

 to the Virgin Mary with much piety, that 

 fhe would obtain for him from her Bleffed 

 Son this Grace, — that he might feel a little 

 of that fame blifs which Saint Simon felt 

 upon the Feaft of the Purification, when he 

 did bear Jefus, the Bleffed Saviour, in his 

 arms. And having prayed thus, the all- 

 merciful Virgin Mary heard his prayer ; for 

 lo ! the Queen of Heaven appeared to him 

 with her Bleffed Son in her arms, with ex- 

 ceeding great light ; and drawing near unto 

 Brother Conrad, fhe laid that Bleffed Babe 



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