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angels, one after the other sweetly expired.*
23. Father Crasset relates, that a certain
military officer told him, that after a battle he
found a soldier on the battle-ground who held
in his hand a Rosary and the scapular of Mary,
and asked for a confessor. His forehead had
been pierced by a musket-ball, which had passed
through the head and came out behind, so that
the brain was visible and protruded through
each opening, and he could not live without a
miracle. He however raided himself, made his
confession to the chaplain with great com
punction, and after receiving absolution,expired.f
24. The same author adds, that this very
captain told him of being present when a trum
peter of his company received a pistol-shot from
some one near, and when be examined his breast
where he said that he had been hit, he found
that the ball had been stopped by the scapular
of the Virgin, which the man wore, and that it
had not even touched the flesh. He took it and
exhibited it to the whole company. J
25. A noble youth, named Eschylus, being
Bent by the prince his Father to Hildesheim, a
city of Saxony, to study, abandoned himself to
a dissolute life. He fell ill, and was near dying,
and while in that state he had a vision. He saw
himself shut up in a furnace of fire,
and believed
himself to be already in hell; and then he escap
ed from it
through a hole and took refuge in a
great place, where he found the most holy Mary
* Teeoro del Rosar. 1. 4, Mir. 17, Diotall. to. 1, Agg. Es. 7.
t Craes. to. 2, tr. 6, pr. 14. $ Crass, loc. cit.