St Wilfrid’s Debt

In 704, Wilfrid fell seriously ill on the back from Rome. Then, without warning, he got up and called for his chaplain. Wilfrid told him that he had seen the archangel Michael, who said the Virgin Mary had granted him four more years of life (as happened to the Biblical King Hezekiah) and recommended building a church in her honour.

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