Excerpt from The Dialogues of Saint Gregory, Surnamed the Great, Pope of Rome and the First of That Name: Divided Into Four Books, Wherein He Entreateth of the Lives and Miracles of the Saints in Italy and of the Eternity of Men's Souls
XXII. How, by vision, he gave order for the building of the Abbey of Terracina.
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