Fecit igitur ut animo disposuerat, et imbecilles artus baculo sustentans intravit ecclesiam; ac prosternens se ad corpus viri Dei, pia intentione per eius auxilium Dominum sibi propitium fieri precabatur: atque inter preces velut in soporem solutus sensit, ut ipse postea referre erat solitus, quasi magnam latamque manum caput sibi in parte qua dolebat, tetigisse, eodemque tactu totam illam quae languore pressa fuerat corporis sui partem, paulatim fugiente dolore, ac sanitate subsequente, ad pedes usque pertransisse.
He did therefore as he had devised in his thought, and staying his feeble limbs with a staff went into the church; and falling prostrate at the corse of the man of God, he prayed with godly earnestness that through his help the Lord would become merciful unto him: and as he was at his prayers, falling as it were into a deep sleep, he felt (as he himself was afterwards wont to tell) like as a great broad hand had touched his head in that place where the grief was, and with that same touching passed along all that part of his body, which had been sore vexed with sickness, down to his feet, and by little and little the pain passed away and health followed thereon.
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