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Saint Salvador de Horta and the pomegranate...
"Salvador de Orta (1520–1567), a lay Franciscan brother who served as a cook, porter, and designated beggar for his friary during much of his life, was one of many miracle-working holy men and women denounced to the Spanish Inquisition on suspicion of being under demonic influence. Cleared of all charges against him but still viewed by his superiors as something of a problem because of the attention his miracles attracted, Salvador was shuffled to various friaries here and there and ended up spending his final years in remote Sardinia. His distinction in the history of levitation involves his love of nature-- a very Franciscan trait-- which could send him into ecstatic levitations. Once, for instance, while he was out begging, a prominent family invited him to join them for dinner and at some point handed him a pomegranate. Upon slicing it in two, seeing the tightly packed purple grains, and marveling at their beauty and order, Salvador rose up in ecstasy with outstretched arms and remained suspended in the air, much to the surprise of his hosts, who ran out and gathered their neighbors so they could see this miracle with their own eyes."
From They Flew: A History of the Impossible by Carlos M. N. Eire [https://a.co/0gULtaVQ]. The quotation is from the Acta Sanctorum, March, 2:679 AB.
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