"Another legend tells that Maximus, bishop of Nola, trying to escape persecution, exhausted by hunger and cold, had collapsed on the ground; Felix of Nola (bishop) was sent to him by an angel, and although there was no food, he saw a bunch of grapes hanging from a nearby bramble, from which he squeezed wine into Massimo's mouth, and carrying him on his shoulders, he took him with him. After Massimo's death, Felix was elected bishop. Being sought after by his persecutors because he preached, he hid himself by slipping through a narrow passage between some ruined walls. Immediately, by God's will, spiders wove their webs across the passage; the persecutors, seeing the webs, were convinced that no one could have passed through there and left. (from “'San Felice”', p. 124)"
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