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was and what a good appetite I hadand he asked how I could eat when
death was so near. I told him I was doing it so that all the sea water I
would drink when I drowned wouldn't make me sick. My simplicity made
him shake with laughter from head to foot. I confessed a number of people
who didn't utter a word with the agony they were inand I didn't listen to
them because I was too busy eating.
The officers and people of high rank escaped safely in a skiffalong
with two priests who were on board. But my clothes were so bad that I
couldn't fit inside. When I had my fill of eatingI went over to a cask full
of good wine and transferred as much as I could hold into my stomach. I
forgot all about the stormmyselfand everything. The ship started to sink
and the water came pouring in as though it had found its home. A corporal
grabbed my hands and as he was dying he asked me to listen to a sin he
wanted to confess. He said he hadn't carried out a penance he had been
givenwhich was to make a pilgrimage to Our Lady of Loretoeven
though he had had many opportunities to do it. And now that he wanted to
he couldn't. I told him that with the authority vested in meI would
commute his penanceand that instead of goi
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