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   him in their own language.(9) The Catholic Encyclopedia notes that many   
   biographers of Saint Vincent have held that he was endowed with the Gift of   
   tongues. This is perhaps the closest parallel of Acts the second chapter that   
   we find recorded in early Church History.   
      
   In the first half of the sixteenth century we find the same report about the   
   two Catholic saints, Saint Francis Xavier and Saint Louis Bertrand. Both men   
   were reported to have spoken in foreign language they did not know in the   
   course of their missionary work. The bull by which Berland was canonized for   
   his success in missionary “asserts that to facilitate the work of   
   converting the natives, the apostle was miraculously endowed with the gift of   
   tongues.”(10)   
      
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