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"Francis, who arrived one day in the city of Gubbio, noticed with sorrow that the people were scared, because a large and fierce wolf wandered around and made slaughter of animals and even humans.
He had compassion for these people and, inspired by the Lord, went, alone and unarmed, to face it. When the beast appeared to him, made the sign of the Cross, holding her arms and said, "Brother Wolf, come here to me, I command by Christ that you do not hurt either to me or to anyone." Immediately the wolf came up to him.
The crowd that spy from a distance in the foliage, holding his breath, while Francis, bent over the wolf spoke: "Brother Wolf, |
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About the place of discovery and their number, the imagination of those who have passed this story is very generously . According to an anonymous chronicler of the seventeenth century were found near the church of San Francesco, "in a huge underground hall paved with fine mosaics, with the walls covered in marble and adorned with columns of different colors, and niches filled with statues of copper , there were found the Twelve Tables "According to some were found in Scheggia, a village a few kilometers from Gubbio, in the vicinity of a temple dedicated to Jupiter Apennines. About the number of tables found, |
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