Iacopo Ligozzi
St. Raymond of Peñafort Resuscitates a Boy

1620-23
Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Only one episode in the Acta Sanctorum's life of St. Raymond involves the resuscitation of a person, and that person is not specifically said to be a boy. As the story goes, the saint had just landed in the port of Tossa, Catalonia, when the people brought him on a stretcher an incola who had been working at the harvest and had suddenly been struck to the ground by some ailment. They had shaken him and shouted at him, but apparently he was dead. Raymond prayed to God to give this person a few more moments of life so he could confess his sins. Then he turned to the "dead" person and asked if he wanted to confess and be made clean. He opened his eyes and said he did. Once he received absolution he "gave his spirit to God" and died (Acta Sanctorum, January vol. 1, 410).

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