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Penguin Island

BOOK III
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Warn the inhabitants of the country that if they allow my memory to be blotted out, and leave my tomb without honour and wealth, a new dragon will come and devastate Penguinia." Learned churchmen held an inquiry concerning this apparition, and pronounced it genuine, and not diabolical but truly heavenly, and in later years it was remarked that in France, in like circumstances, St.
Foy and St.Catherine had acted in the same way and made use of similar language.
The monastery was restored and pilgrims flocked to it anew.

The virgin Orberosia worked greater and greater miracles.

She cured divers hurtful maladies, particularly club-foot, dropsy, paralysis, and St.Guy's disease.

The monks who kept the tomb were enjoying an enviable opulence, when the saint, appearing to King Draco the Great, ordered him to recognise her as the heavenly patron of the kingdom and to transfer her precious remains to the cathedral of Alca.
In consequence, the odoriferous relics of that virgin were carried with great pomp to the metropolitan church and placed in the middle of the choir in a shrine made of gold and enamel and ornamented with precious stones.
The chapter kept a record of the miracles wrought by the blessed Orberosia.
Draco the Great, who had never ceased to defend and exalt the Christian faith, died fulfilled with the most pious sentiments and bequeathed his great possessions to the Church.
III.

QUEEN CRUCHA Terrible disorders followed the death of Draco the Great.


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