and believe on Him. Let us now go this night and obtain for ourselves the holy baptism of Christian men, through which verily those who believe on Him are His own.' Then said Placidas to her, 'He Whom I saw said the same to me.' Then verily at midnight they went, so that their servants should not know it, to the Christian men's priest, and related to him all the things which had been shown them, and (said) that they believed on God, and entreated him to baptize them.
Then the bishop was filled with much bliss, and glorified God, Who willeth that all men should be whole and come to the way of truth; and he thereupon christened them all, and instructed them in the mysteries of the holy faith, and baptized them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; and named Placidas Eustachius, and his wife Theophistis, and his first son Agapetus, and the second Theophistus, and gave them the holy sacrament of Christ's body and blood; and let them go, thus saying, ' The Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, be with you and give you the eternal kingdom; truly I perceive that God's blessing is with you; enjoy ye God's paradise, and remember me, John, I pray you.' Then verily again in the early morning Eustace took a few companions and went to the place where he had before seen the vision, and dispersed his companions as if for the sake of hunting; and he alone remained, and approached the place, and saw the same vision which he had seen before, and fell down on his face, and said; 'I beseech Thee, Lord, and I acknowledge that Thou art the Saviour Christ, the Son of the living God; and now I have come hither, and pray Thy indivisible divinity that Thou wilt reveal to me that which Thou didst before promise me.' Then said the Saviour to him, ' Blessed art thou who hast received the washing of My grace, and hast clothed thyself with immortality; and now thou hast overcome the devil, and hast trodden under foot him that deceived thee; and now thou hast divested thyself of the corruptible man, and hast vested thyself with the incorruptible, who continueth ever world without end; now shall be manifested the works of thy faith, and the devil's envy will be stirred up against thee, because thou
