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Augustine Fangi

... that the concentration ability of Augustine Fangi reportedly allowed him to undergo an operation without anesthetic and feel nothing?
... that bishop Barbatus of Benevento is thought to have helped the city's resistance to Byzantine Emperor Constans II by destroying a Temple of Isis in the city, reusing the materials in building the city wall?
... that citizens from the city of Narni, Italy, tried to kidnap Dominican mystic Columba of Rieti for their own city, but she escaped?