When Benedict was building a chapel, the devil sat on a stone. Nobody could move him until St Benedict blessed the stone.

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St. Benedict and the devil. When Benedict was building a chapel, the devil sat on a stone and nobody could move him until St Benedict blessed the stone. Then the devil took flight. From Military and Religious Life in the Middle Ages by Paul Lacroix published London circa 1880.

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