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    The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920
    The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920
    The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920
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    The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920

    By J. Lewis (James Lewis) May, D. B. Stewart, Bernard Miall and Anatole France

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas 1920 - J. Lewis (James Lewis) May

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      Title: The Miracle Of The Great St. Nicolas

             1920

      Author: Anatole France

      Editor: James Lewis May And Bernard Miall

      Translator: D. B. Stewart

      Release Date: May 9, 2008 [EBook #25410]

      Last Updated: January 8, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GREAT ST. NICOLAS ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE MIRACLE OF THE GREAT ST. NICOLAS

      From The Seven Wives Of Bluebeard & Other Marvellous Tales

      By Anatole France

      Translated by D. B. Stewart

      Edited By James Lewis May And Bernard Miall

      John Lane Company MCMXX

      ST. NICOLAS, Bishop of Myra in Lycia, lived in the time of Constantine the Great. The most ancient and weighty of those authors who have mentioned him celebrate his virtues, his labours, and his worth: they give abundant proofs of his sanctity; but none of them records the miracle of the salting-tub. Nor is it mentioned in the Golden Legend. This silence is important: still one does not willingly consent to throw doubt upon a fact so widely known, which is attested by the ballad which all the world knows:

           "There were three little children

           In the fields they went to glean."

      This famous text expressly states that a cruel pork-butcher put the innocents like pigs into the salting-vat. That is to say, he apparently preserved them, cut into pieces, in a bath of brine. This is, to be sure, how pork is cured: but one is surprised to read further on that the three little children remained seven years in pickle, whereas it is usual to begin withdrawing the pieces of flesh from the tub, with a wooden fork, at the end of about six weeks. The text is explicit: according to the elegy, it was seven years after the crime that St. Nicolas entered the accursed hostelry. He asked for supper. The landlord offered him a piece of ham:

           "'Wilt eat of ham?   Tis dainty food.'

           'I'll have no ham: it is not good.

           'Wilt cat a piece of tender veal?

           'I will not make of that my meal.

           Young salted flesh I want, and that

           Has lain seven years within the vat.

           Wheras the butcher heard this said

           Out of the door full fast he fled."

      The Man of God immediately resuscitated the tender victims by the laying of hands on the salting-tub.

      Such is, in substance, the story of the old anonymous rhyme. It bears the inimitable stamp of honesty and good faith. Scepticism seems ill-inspired when it attacks the most vital memories of the popular mind. It is not without a lively satisfaction that I have found myself able to reconcile the authority of the ballad with the silence of the ancient biographers of the Lycian pontiff. I am happy to proclaim the result of my long meditations and scholastic researches. The miracle of the salting-tub is true, in so far as essentials are concerned, but it was not the blessed Bishop of Myra who performed it; it was another St. Nicolas, for there were two: one, as we have already stated, Bishop of Myra in Lycia; the other more recent, Bishop of Trinqueballe in Vervignole. For me was reserved the task of distinguishing between them. It was the Bishop of Trinqueballe who rescued the three little boys from the salting-tub. I shall

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