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"""""70 THE CUBA OF AR8.I was able to make, with a handful of flour, ten largt/oaves of from twenty to twenty-two pounds each; asmuch, in fact,of flour."as could have been made with a whole sackThis fact, with all its details, was related to M. Monninby Jeanne Marie Chancy, who made the bread, by Catherine Lassagne and Jeanne and Marie Filliat, who witnessed the miracle.Oh, how pleased we were,"added they,to eat thisbread !Another day the orphans wanted bread ; there wasneither corn, flour, nor money in the house. For oncethe good cure s heart failed him. He thought God hadforsaken him on account of his sins. He sent for thesuperioress, and said to her with a very full heart :We shall have to send away our poor children, then,since we can no longer find bread for them."He went first, however, with a vague feeling betweebhope and fear, to look once more into the granary. Heslowly ascended the stairs, followed by Jeanne MarieChancy, and opened the door with a trembling hand.The granary was full, as if corn had been thrown into itby sacksful. M. Vianney hastened down to tell this greatwonder to his children.he."I distrusted Providence, my poor little ones,"saidOur good God has well punished me."This was the interpretation which his humility alwaysput upon any especial mark of Divine protection; he regarded it as a loving chastisement for his want of trust inGod. The mayor of Ars, Antoine Mandy, who has oftentold the tale to his children, and a number of the principalinhabitants, hastened, at the rumour of the miracle, to seethe wonderful corn ;and the miller, as ^ filled his sacks