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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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torment his body and soul through all eternity.”

A murmur of assent echoed through the Hall.
I lifted my head and looked at my judges. They
all looked back at me in stern silence. I bent
my head and said nothing, I remembered the
warning of the old Archangel to be silent, and
besides I did not know what to say. Suddenly I
noticed far away in the background a small saint
nodding frantically at me. Presently I saw him
timidly making his way among the bigger saints
to where I stood near the door.

“I know you well,” said the little saint with a
friendly glance in his gentle eyes, “I saw you
coming,” and putting his finger to his lips, he
added in a whisper, “I also saw your faithful
friend trotting at your heels.”

“Who are you, kind father?” I whispered back.

“I am St. Rocco, the patron saint of the dogs,”
announced the little saint, “I wish I could help
you but I am rather a small saint here, they won’t
listen to what I say,” he whispered with a furtive
glance towards the prophets and the holy fathers.

“He was an unbeliever,” St. Ignatius went on.
“A blasphemous scoffer, a liar, an impostor, an
enchanter full of black magic, a fornicator . . .”

Several of the old prophets cocked their ears
attentively.

“He was young and ardent,” pleaded St. Paul,
“it is better to . . .”

“Old age did not improve him,” muttered a
hermit.

“He was fond of children,” said St. John.

“He was fond of their mothers too,” growled a
Patriarch in his beard.

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