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- ↑ Julia M. H. Smith, St Maglorius, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ↑ Adrien Baillet, Les Vies des Saints, avec l'histoire de leur culte, selon qu ..., Volume 2(chez la Veuve Roulland, 1724) p401.
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