Yesterday Dr Heather Payne looked at how the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic seems to be repeating some of 1720 pandemic experience ... and also at some of the healing options ...
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... Above the high altar in @StDavidsCath the shining Salviate Venetian glass mosaics show us Dewi Sant's miracle of healing in restoring to life the child Magnus ...

... in Rhigyfarch's Life of St David he says "a widowed mother was watching over the body of her dead boy, who was called Magnus. Blessed David consoled the mother and comforted her with salutary admonitions, but she, having heard of his fame, threw herself at his feet ...

... and begged with distressing appeals that he should have pity on her. The man of God, having compassion on human weakness, went near to the body of the deceased, and watered the face with tears, and threw himself on the body of the dead, and prayed to the Lord, and said ...

... "O Lord, my God, who did descend into this world for us sinners from the bosom of the Father to redeem us from the jaws of the old enemy, have pity on this widow, and restore life to her only son, and breathe into him the breath of life, that thy name may be magnified ...

... in all the earth." Then the limbs became warm, the soul returned, the body stirred. And taking the boy's hand, he restored him alive and well to his mother. The mother turns her sad weeping into joyful tears.

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