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Roman Legends

Note 12 — PIETRO BAILLIARDO.1

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‘Away flew the devil, and Pietro Bailliardo on his back, all the way to St. James of Compostella, and, whr-r-r-r all the way to the sanctuary of Cirollo, fast, fast as thought. Then suddenly the devil stopped midway. An idea had struck him. “What had a devil to do with going about visiting shrines in this way; no harm had been done to the sacred place; not a stone had been injured;12 why then had they gone to S. Giacomo; why were they going to Cirollo?”

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