ABSTRACT
One day Anselm, still only Bec’s prior, was surprised to find a gold ring in his dormitory bed. Hoping to find out from where the ring had come, he showed it around to many others, who were also surprised, and in the end the ring was sold for the abbey’s needs. No one knew anything about it, and
to this day no-one has discovered whence it came or by whom it was brought there …. But afterwards, when Anselm was raised to the episcopate, there were those who said this had been foretold in the prophetic incident of the ring. We, however simply set forth the things as they happened without embellishment. 1
