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A Barrel of Beer for the Benedictine Brothers

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Well then, what about the well? Did Bernard miraculously fill it with water or not? Even if he did, it couldn't have happened in 1620, as this would have been 17 years after his death. According to the hagiographic account, Bernard helped deliver the town dwellers from pestilence only as a ghost. The only detail that checks out is the keg of beer given to the monastery each year. Where, then, does the story about the well come from? The oldest version of that legend I found was told by Count Edward Raczyński, a member of parliament of the Grand Duchy of Posen (Poznań), who thus described his visit at the Lubiń Benedictine church in Lubińhis ''Memories of Greater Poland'':
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