Of Godena, the cripple.
A CERTAIN woman named Godena had her legs so twisted back to her thighs that she could never stand upright, but by the continual habit of sitting led a tedious life in sorrow and tears. She, being brought on a time to the church of the most blessed apostle, begged the boon of perfect health, and obtained it by the gift of our Lord Jesus Christ, who looseth the fettered, raiseth the oppressed, and directeth the righteous.
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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