But at Calama, where these relics have been for an extended time, and the place more of the miracles had been narrated for public information, there are incomparably extra. Eucharius, a Spanish priest, residing at Calama, was for a long time a sufferer from stone. She said that she had been persuaded by a Jew to wear next her skin, under all her clothes, a hair girdle, and on this girdle a ring, which, as a substitute of a gem, had a stone which had been discovered within the kidneys of an ox. At Uzali, too, a colony near Utica, many sign miracles were, to my knowledge, wrought by the identical martyr, whose relics had found a place there by course of the bishop Evodius, lengthy earlier than we had them at Hippo. There, too, by the same martyr, two men, one a citizen, the opposite a stranger, have been cured of gout; however whereas the citizen was completely cured, the stranger was only knowledgeable what he ought to apply when the ache returned; and when he adopted this advice, the ache was directly relieved. There, too, the son of a man, Irenaeus, certainly one of our tax-gatherers, took in poor health and died.

There was a fellow-townsman of ours at Hippo, Florentius, an old man, religious and poor, who supported himself as a tailor. But he, strolling on in silence, noticed on the shore a fantastic fish, gasping as if simply solid up, and having secured it with the good-natured help of the youths, he sold it for curing to a cook of the name of Catosus, a superb Christian man, telling him how he had come by it, and receiving for it three hundred pence, which he laid out in wool, that his wife might exercise her talent upon, and make right into a coat for him. This he did with great groaning and tears, and the burning fervor of honest piety; then, as he left the place, he took a number of the flowers that have been lying there, and, because it was already night time, laid them by his father’s head, who so slept. For, when I was there lately, a lady of rank, Petronia, had been miraculously cured of a severe sickness of long standing, during which all medical appliances had failed, and, with the consent of the abovenamed bishop of the place, I exhorted her to publish an account of it that could be read to the people.

The folks involved within the riots have been LGBTQ in every sense: gay men, lesbians, transgender women, effeminate males, etc. Black, Hispanic and white people took half in the riots, forming a various crowd. When the bishop Projectus was bringing the relics of essentially the most glorious martyr Stephen to the waters of Tibilis, an excellent concourse of individuals got here to fulfill him on the shrine. There was there an previous nobleman named Martial, who had a fantastic aversion to the Christian religion, however whose daughter was a Christian, whereas her husband had been baptized that same year. When he was sick, they besought him with tears and prayers to grow to be a Christian, but he positively refused, and dismissed them from his presence in a storm of indignation. For when i saw, in our own occasions, frequent signs of the presence of divine powers much like these which had been given of old, I desired that narratives is likely to be written, judging that the multitude shouldn’t stay ignorant of these things. There a blind woman entreated that she is perhaps led to the bishop who was carrying the relics.

A fistula below which he had lengthy labored, and which his private physician was watching a chance to cut, was abruptly cured by the mere carrying of that sacred fardel,21 -no less than, afterwards there was no hint of it in his physique. And when he had returned to his house, which was already ringing with the lamentations of his family, and had thrown on his daughter’s body the gown he was carrying, she was restored to life. And while his body was mendacity lifeless, and the final rites have been being prepared, amidst the weeping and mourning of all, one of many pals who were consoling the father recommended that the physique needs to be anointed with the oil of the identical martyr. Likewise Eleusinus, a man of tribunitian rank amongst us, laid his infant son, who had died, on the shrine of the martyr, which is within the suburb the place he lived, and, after prayer, which he poured out there with many tears, he took up his child alive. However, her dad and mom wrapped her corpse in the dress, and, her breath returning, she became quite well.