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The Count of Toulouse favoured one of his courtiers. The man was devoted to the Virgin and refused to hear any mass but hers.
The other courtiers were jealous of the pious man and plotted against him. They lied to the count, slandering him and accusing him of terrible crimes.
The count decided to burn the man and had a furnace prepared by a lime burner. He instructed the lime burner to throw into the fire the first man who came his way.
He sent his victim on an errand to the lime burner, but, on his way, the man stopped to hear mass recited at a hermitage.
The count, thinking the deed had been done, sent another man to the lime burner. This man was the one who had slandered the Count’s favourite. The lime burner seized him and threw him into the flames.
When the count saw the good man alive and learned of the slanderer’s death, he realised justice had been served. He wept, praising the Virgin, and promised to have the miracle proclaimed in all her churches.
