and came afterward in the morning to Martin,
blithely with sound skin, thanking him for his healing.
Likewise many sick men were often healed
by the borders of his garment which many men pulled off,
and bound on the sick, and they were instantly better.
In like manner men bound some of his bedstraw on a lunatic,
when the devil went from him and he received his reason.
XIX. There was a certain great noble called Arborius in that land,
a man of great faith, and his daughter lay in a fever,
sorely afflicted. Then one day they brought
a message in a letter to the same noble
from bishop Martin, and he laid it on her breast
where she was hottest, and she immediately becarae whole.
Then the father was so moved that he straightway vowed
her virginity to God, and brought her to Martin
that he might recognize his own might in the maiden,
neither would he that any other man should
give her the veil save the holy Martin.
A man called Paulinus was at that time thriving in good,
but his eyes were evilly troubled
with swollen brows and a great mist,
so that his pupils were greatly darkened.
Then Martin touched them with a pencil,
and all the soreness straightway departed from him
and the mist with it, through Martin's touch.
He was a very wealthy man, but was so stirred up
that he at last sold all his possessions
and distributed all to the poor for his Lord's love.
Then Martin greatly praised the man's deeds,
and commended them to others for an example, often saying of him
that he at that time had beautifully fulfilled the saying
which our Lord spake to a certain rich man;
