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St Gregory the Dialogist, tr. P. W., 1608

Book 2, 26. How Holy Benedict Cured a Boy of Leprosy

But I must not here pass over with silence that which I had by relation of the honourable man, Anthony, who said that his father’s boy was so pitifully punished with a leprosy, that all his hair fell off, his body swelled, and filthy corruption did openly come forth. Who being sent by his father to the man of God, he was by him quickly restored to his former health.