How many difficulties may we make about this story! How could this wretched shepherd cast the spell without touching the person? How could he introduce himself into young M. de la Richardière's chamber without either opening or forcing the door? How could he render himself visible to him alone, whilst none other beheld him? Can one doubt of his corporeal presence, since he received five cuts from a knife in his face, of which he afterwards bore the marks, when, by the merit of the holy mass and the intercession of the saints, the spell was taken off? How could St. Maur appear to him in his Benedictine habit, having the wizard on his left hand? If the circumstance is certain, as it appears, who shall explain the manner in which all passed or took place?
Footnotes:
[[402]] Ezek. viii. 1, 2, &c.
[[403]] Matt. xvii. 3.
[[404]] Acts ix. 10.
[[405]] Acts ix. 2.
[[406]] Ammian. Marcell. lib. xix. Sozomen. lib. vi. c. 35.
[[407]] Aug. lib. viii. de Civit. c. 18.
[[408]] Aug. Serm. cxxiii. pp. 1277, 1278.
[[409]] Aug. de curâ gerendâ pro Mortuis, c. 11, 12.