'Is this the man who killed you? say!'
The dead man opened his eyes and looked at the accused.
'Oh, no; that's not the man at all!' he said.
'And you, where are you?' continued St. Anthony.
'I should be in Paradise, but that there is a ground of excommunication
on me, therefore am I in Purgatory,' answered the dead man. Then
St. Anthony put his ear down, and bid him tell him the matter of the
excommunication; and, when he had confessed it, he released him from
the bond, and he went straight to Paradise. The father of St. Anthony,
too, was pronounced innocent, and set free.
And all the while no one had missed St. Anthony from the pulpit!
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