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School: Monknewton (roll number 9696)

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Monknewtown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Maighréad Ní Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 459

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    When our Lord and the Blessed Virgin and St Joseph were flying into Egipt they passed men sowing oats in a field. The next morning the oats were ripe and the men were cutting it and Herods solders were looking for the Holy Family and the told them that they went by and they sowing the oats. The solders though that it was a long time since they sowed the oats but the jet told them that it was yesterday they passed. It is said that if you kill the jet before he cocks his tail you will get seven sins off your soul.
    It is said that when the Holy Family were going through the desert they saw Herods soldiers coming after them and they had no place to hide. They saw a trunk of a tree and they got into it. When they were in the spider wove a web on the open of the tree. When the soldiers came up and looked at the tree they saw
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
          1. the Holy Family (~429)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    William Clarke
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Monknewtown, Co. Meath