who before had tormented him in cruel torments,
And they kissed his feet, and his flowing blood
carefully they collected, for their own healing,
and laid him thus on the soft bed,
as the impious one commanded, and so left him.
It happened then soon, after a little while,
that the saint departed from the world to God,
with victorious martyrdom, the devil being conquered,
to the eternal glory with the gracious God,
which He has promised to all them that love Him.
and that keep their faith in Him to the end.
Datianus then saith, the devilish persecutor,
ashamed nevertheless, ' If I might not overcome him
formerly when living, I will punish him when dead.
Cast now his body into a wide field,
as food for birds, and as meat for unclean hounds,
and for the wild beasts.' And his cruel servants did so.
Soon they bore that body to the midst of the field,
and there cast it away, as meat for the wild beasts.
It happened then soon, through God's providence,
that a black raven soon flew thither,
and guarded the body against the wild fowls,
and drove them all away with his wings,
and also the fierce beasts by his attacks.
The Almighty God, who to Elias His prophet
by the black raven once sent meat,
and fed him then by the fowl's ministration,
as in the Book of Kings is well known concerning it;
the same God kept now the holy man's body,
by the keeping of the raven, against the other fowls.
This was afterwards told to the impious Datianus;
and he then, irritated, saith thus:
'May I not overcome him even when dead?
