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 | | Although Borromeo was on the whole skeptical of the more outlandish reports of untori, he thought some of the accounts were credible, including stories that certain anointers wiped prayer books with unquents in order to spread the disease among the clergy. |
 | | Borromeo was heroized for his reputed affection for the people of Milan during plague, as in this painting by Luigi Pellegrino Scaramuccia done in 1680. |
 | | During the great famine of 1627-8, he is said to have fed daily 2,000 poor people at the gates of his residence, and was personally an example of such absolute heroism during the plague year that nearly one hundred of his clergy gave up their lives attending plague victims. |
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