Book Two - Chapter 21

Also a miracle of a certain woman.

IN the year after our Lord's Incarnation 1159 and in the sixteenth year of the reign of King Henry the Second [St. Bartholomew's Day. 16 Henry II was in 1170, not 1159], on the glorious festival of the most blessed apostle Bartholomew in the holy temple of that same apostle, there shone forth very many tokens of the divine power. A certain woman suffering from serious illness was carried in a litter to the same venerable fane. And, behold! on the vigil of the same apostle, about the hour of compline she began to be better and gradually to recover her long-lost strength. Then, having obtained the boon of perfect health, she arose unaided from the litter, rejoicing and sound, and, coming to kiss the holy altar in returning thanks, she offered herself, as a pleasing sacrifice, to God. Presently, when this miracle of appreciation from on high was made known most devoted praises were paid by the convent of the church and by the crowded populace to God and His glorious apostle.

 

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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