Book Two - Chapter 20

A miracle of a maidservant.

A CERTAIN maidservant was brought to the said hospital from the house of a citizen of London. One of her feet she could not stretch out at all, either because, afflicted with a long-standing illness, she had kept her bed for a considerable time, or because the sinews of the knee were contracted.

The most blessed apostle appeared to her in her dreams on a certain night and bade her stretch out her foot. At his command she stretched out her foot quite easily, and on rising at dawn she -- who the evening before had only had the use of one -- now had free use of both her feet. Those who were present were astonished and asked her what had happened to her during the night. She related what she had seen and glorified Christ's apostle as the author of her health and gave thanks to him.

 

The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew's, Smithfield Rendered into Modern English from the original Latin version preserved in the British Museum, numbered Vespasian B. IX, by Mr. Humphrey H. King and Mr. William Barnard for use in the Records of St. Bartholomew's Priory by E.A. Webb.

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