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84 the miracles of antichrist.
the others. The hermit now begged the captain
not to take this image away from Sicily, but give it
to him. The captain, however, refused. " I will
bring it to England," he said, and the Englishmen
will give me its weight in gold for it. The hermit
renewed his entreaties. At last the captain let his
men drive him away and hoisted sails, ready to
depart.
It looked as if the holy image would be lost to
Sicily, but the hermit fell on his knees by one of
the lava blocks on the shore and prayed to God
that this might not take place. And what
happened ? The ship could not start. The anchor was
up, the sails hoisted, and the wind was favorable,
but for three whole days the ship lay motionless, as
though it had been a rock. On the third day the
captain took the Madonna image and tossed it to
the hermit, who still lay on the shore. And
immediately the ship started out to sea. But the hermit
brought the image to Monte Chiaro, and it is still
in Diamante, where it has a chapel and an altar in
the dome.
Donna Micaela now went to this Madonna image
to pray for her father.
She found the Madonna’s chapel, which was built
i*n a dark corner of the cathedral. There the walls
were entirely covered with votive articles, with silver
hearts and pictures, all of which were gifts from
those whom Diamante’s Madonna had helped.
The image was hewn in black marble, and when
Donna Micaela saw it standing there in its niche,
tall and dark and almost hidden by a golden lattice,
it seemed to her that its face was beautiful, and that
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