Also they found in a monastery on the way
a blind man who earnestly besought his cure
from the holy Maurus, and he healed him through God,
and bade that he should abide without wandering
in God's service, there in the monastery, for ever;
and he did so afterwards from that day.
Again he healed in another place
a widow's son, who lay there unconscious,
and comforted the mother, and men wondered thereat,
and the boy ran straightway to Maurus,
crying out, and saying, 'Thou hast delivered my soul
from the fiery torments,' and he afterwards became a monk.
Maurus saw also, as God revealed to him,
on that same journey, Benedict's departure,
and how he went to Heaven, though he was far away.
Then they fared forth to the aforesaid bishop,
who had bidden to send for them, but he was not then living,
but a few days before had departed from life,
and another bishop was set in his episcopal chair.
Then they were sorrowful, but went nevertheless
to the new bishop, and asked his counsel,
and enquired whether he would fulfil the other's desire,
and establish monasteries for himself, as the other had intended.
He said that he could not concern himself about monasteries
at another bishop's dictation, but must attend to his affairs
according to his own disposing, and make rules for his houses.
Then they departed from the bishop of that diocese,
and God provided them, in another province
of the kingdom of the Franks, an excellent dwelling-place.
There was a wealthy viscount in that country,
named Florus, and he had been minded
to build a monastery and to set monks in it,
if he could find out any that were pious men,
because that Benedict's fame had come into that country,
and men had also told him of Maurus' arrival.
