Note 42 — Chapter IV · ARAGON TO THE UNION WITH CASTILE
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St. Thecla, patroness of the church of Tarragona, appeared to him, upbraided him with impiety, and gave him so good a box on the ear, or smack in the face, that he never recovered from it. “Está muy recibido que fue contigado de la mano de Dios, y se le aparecio en vision Santa Tecla, la qual le hirio de una palmada en el rostro, y que este fue la ocasion de su dolencia.”—Zurita.e Who would expect Ferreras,f a writer of the eighteenth century, to believe such a relation?