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St Anselm was Archbishop of Canterbury and a Doctor of the Church. He was born approximately 1033 and died 21 April, 1109. No reliable source attributes miracles to him, although there is a brief account of miracles attributed St. Anselm said to have been written by Eadmer, but its authorship is doubtful. Other early writers on Anselm, such as John of Salisbury, add some new details, but their accounts of the Saint are largely drawn from Eadmer.
Eadmer, assuming he was actually the author, attributes some fanciful miracles to Anselm, including that he had the ability to see through walls, cure with a look a youth troubled with pain in his genitalia, and was able to drive off the wolves which a gravely ill monk imagined were attacking him. The invalid monk claimed that when Anselm came in the door and raised his hand to make the sign of the cross, he saw a tongue of flame come out of his mouth as if it were a lance hurled at the wolves. Eadmer assures his readers that he might have included many more accounts of cures effected through the water in which Anselm had washed his hands and the morsels of food that had been secretly removed from his plate.
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