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Devil's Pillar

There are preserved at Prague three stones of a pillar which the devil brought from Rome to crush a priest, with whom he had made a compact, and to kill him while he said mass. But St. Peter, says the legend, threw the devil and his pillar into the sea three times in succession, which diversion gave the priest time for repentance. The devil was so chagrined that he broke the pillar and saved himself.

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