The Man Who Left No Footprints

Sometime around 658, Cuthbert was guest-master at a monastery in Ripon when a traveller called. Cuthbert pressed breakfast on him, but while he out of the room his guest vanished without trace, despite fresh snow on the ground. Cuthbert later discovered three loaves of incomparably fine, tasty bread in the refectory, and concluded that his visitor had been an angel.

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