The constellation
Q553 Divine favor withdrawn as punishment
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- Miraculous punishments · Q550 entry
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- Virgin Mary withdraws the sacrament from a scoffer. (Cf. Q225.) · Q553.1 entry
- Punishment: angel ceases to appear to self-righteous hermit · Q553.2 entry
- Sterility as punishment. (Cf. T591.) · Q553.3 entry
- Death of children as punishment · Q553.4 entry
- Punishment: small catch of fish for child-murderers. Fisherman and his wife have always caught three fishes. From greed they kill their child in order to have more fish for themselves. But they thereafter catch but two fishes. (Cf. Q211.4.) · Q553.5 entry
- Failure in all efforts as punishment · Q553.6 entry
- Rains withheld until king remembers to have monks' huts roofed as promised. (Cf. Q266.) · Q553.7 entry