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attacked by highwaymen, who killed his son and dragged the poor father
into a cave, which they shut him in, in order to demand a ransom. This
parishioner of the bishop Malocello made a vow to Blessed Theobald of
Mondovì that he would go on a seven-year pilgrimage if he escaped the
terrible danger immediately. As soon as he had made this vow, a boar ran
into the cave, followed by servants of the Counts of Ventimiglia out hunt-
ing, and sat at the feet of the kidnapped victim, who shouted to the hunters
to release him from the ropes, because the boar was lying down peacefully;
this enabled the immediate liberation of the aforesaid Guglielmo Vitrola,
who – on oath – confirmed the crime of which he had been a victim and the
vow he had subsequently made before the bishop Pietro Malocello.