Excerpt from St. Erkenwald (Bishop of London 675-693): An Alliterative Poem, Written About 1386, Narrating a Miracle Wrought by the Bishop in St. Paul's Cathedral

So fresh and untouched were both body and garb, it seemed that the burial must have been but of yesterday. Yet no one could find any record thereof in book or in tale.

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