Quod cum adversarii inviti licet, concederent, allatus est quidam de genere Anglorum, oculorum luce privatus; qui cum oblatus Brettonum sacerdotibus, nil curationis vel sanationis horum ministerio perciperet; tandem Augustinus iusta necessitate compulsus, flectit genua sua ad Patrem Domini nostri Iesu Christi, deprecans ut visum caeco, quem amiserat, restitueret, et per illuminationem unius hominis corporalem, in plurimorum corde fidelium spiritalis gratiam lucis accenderet.
To this, when his adversaries granted, though unwillingly, there was presented a certain man of English birth which had lost the sight of his eyes; who being offered to the British priests, when by their ministry he was not holpen nor could be cured, at length Augustine, compelled by just necessity, fell on his knees to the Father of our Lord Jesu Christ, beseeching him that he would restore to the blind man the sight which he had lost, and that by the bodily lighting of one man he would enkindle the grace of spiritual light in the hearts of many faithful.
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