In Portugal lived a poor woman very often molested by the devil; one day her husband, taken by anger, insulted her because of it, and the woman left the house to go and drown herself in a river.
While praying, heartbroken for the struggle she was fighting inside, she fell asleep and in a dream she saw St. Anthony who said to her: “Get up woman and take this parchment with which you will be free from the harassment of the devil”.
She awoke and with great wonder she found a parchment in her hands with the inscription: “Here is the Cross of the Lord! Flee enemy powers: the Lion of Judah, Jesus Christ, the lineage of David wins. Hallelujah!”
At that sight the woman felt hope in her soul for her own liberation, clutched the prodigious note to her heart and, as long as she brought it, the devil no longer did her any harm.