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O. R. VASSALL-PHILLIPS
quite hot, as if it had just come out of the oven. As in the case of the
loaves given to the children, it was of a much finer quality than the
bread in the convent. Besides, it was found that the oven was cold,
and that the fire had not been lighted all the day.
Thus was Gerard wondrously enabled during that hard winter to
provide for the wants of the starving people of Caposele. He was in
truth the Father of the Poor.
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