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Saint Lutgardis as rendered by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes

...that Lutgardis (pictured) is reported as having levitated and dripped blood from her forehead when entranced?
...that the Renaissance composer Cornelis Verdonck wrote the only known motet written to be performed on the back of an elephant?
...that one of the patrons of The Ypres League was Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, whose son, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, had died in World War I at the First Battle of Ypres?

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Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/August#19 August 2007, archive of Main Page appearance.
Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/March#10 March 2006, archive of Main Page appearance.
Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/January#30 January 2010, archive of Main Page appearance.

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