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In this volume, The Fathers of the Church returns to the Christian Latin writers of the Iberian Peninsula, hitherto represented only by Orosius (Vol. 50) and Prudentius (Vols. 43, 52). What is now Portugal embraces Braga, the sec-city of Martin, Pannonian-born missionary. While abbot of nearby Dumium, Martin had a pupil Paschasius, whose Questions and Answers of the Greek Fathers has never...

asked him to pray as they all had done, he groaned, then arose and praying said: “God, heal thy creature, that the enemy may not rule over him.” And he made the sign of the cross over the child and it was soon restored to its father, healed. (2) Once, when a layman entered the church possessed by an unclean spirit, they all offered prayer, but the unclean spirit was by no means cast out of him. So the brothers said to one another: “What can we do to this spirit? No one can drive him out except Abbot
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