Then didst Thou by a vision discover to Thy forenamed Bishop where
the bodies of Gervasius and Protasius the martyrs lay hid (whom Thou
hadst in Thy secret treasury stored uncorrupted so many years), whence
Thou mightest seasonably produce them to repress the fury of a
woman, but an Empress. For when they were discovered and dug up, and
with due honour translated to the Ambrosian Basilica, not only they
who were vexed with unclean spirits (the devils confessing themselves)
were cured, but a certain man who had for many years been blind, a
citizen, and well known to the city, asking and hearing the reason
of the people's confused joy, sprang forth desiring his guide to
lead him thither. Led thither, he begged to be allowed to touch with
his handkerchief the bier of Thy saints, whose death is precious in
Thy sight. Which when he had done, and put to his eyes, they were
forthwith opened. Thence did the fame spread, thence Thy praises
glowed, shone; thence the mind of that enemy, though not turned to the
soundness of believing, was yet turned back from her fury of
persecuting.
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