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100 the miracles of antichrist.
wonder if anyone threw a stone at them. It’s of no
use to look around, or to run and seek for the one
who threw the stone. For that stone came from San
Pasquale. As surely as there is justice in heaven,
it was San Pasquale who, hearing them talk about
something wicked, threw one of his. stones to warn
them.
And he who does not like to be disturbed when he
is planning wickedness, must not console himself by
thinking that San Pasquale’s stones will soon be
gone. They will certainly never give out. They are
so numerous, that they will last to the end of time.
For when San Pasquale walked here on earth, do you
know what he did ? Do you know what he was
thinking of most of all ?
San Pasquale noticed all the little flint-stones lying
in his path and gathered them up in his bag. You,
signor, you will hardly stoop to pick up a soldo, but
San Pasquale picked up every little flint-stone, and
when he died, he took them all with him up to
heaven, and there he now sits throwing them at all
who are about to do something foolish.
But this is by no means the only good San Pasquale
does mankind. It is also he who gives signs if
anyone is going to be married, or if anyone is going to
die, and he can make signs in other ways too. Old
mother Saradda in Randazzo sat by her daughter’s
sick-bed one night and fell asleep. But the daughter
lay unconscious and was near death, and no one could
notify the priest. How then was the mother awakened
in time? How was she awakened so that she could
send her husband to the rectory? Simply by a chair
that began to rock back and forth and creak and
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