VJ 9

English

A large church was built in Brioude by the faithful to commemorate these and other such famous deeds of power, in which, as we have said, the blessed martyr shone, and in which remedies for paralysis, lameness, blindness, and other illnesses were frequently sought and received.

A certain woman named Fedamia, constricted by a humor of paralysis and unable to move any part of her body without pain, was brought by her relatives and put on display at the blessed church, so that she might obtain alms from generous people. Once she lay resting in her bed in the forecourt adjoining the blessed church during the night preceding a Sunday, while the faithful devoutly celebrated the holy vigils; when she had fallen into a light sleep, she was rebuked and reproved by a man in a dream who asked her why she was not with the others who were offering their vigils to God. She replied that she was so feeble throughout her body that she was completely unable to walk.

Thereupon, she seemed to be lifted up by the man who was talking to her, and led by him to the tomb; and when she offered her prayer there in her sleep, it seemed to her that a heap of chains fell from her body onto the floor. Awakened by this sound, she felt that she had received the fullest health in her whole body. Immediately she rose from her bed and entered the holy church loudly proclaiming her thanks, astonishing everyone.

Some report that she used to describe the appearance of the man who had spoken to her. She said that he was tall, dressed in white, and extremely elegant, that he had a smiling face, and blond hair streaked with gray, that his bearing was graceful, his voice melodious, and his conversation surpassingly kind, while the whiteness of his skin outshone that of lilies, so that among the many thousands of men whom she had often observed, she had seen no one like him. For this reason it did not seem improbable to many people that the blessed martyr had appeared to her. This woman was healed after eighteen years of illness.

Latin

Pro quibus ac talibus virtutum ornamentis magna ibi basilica fabricata a fidelibus, virtutibus, ut praefati sumus, martyris beati refulget, in qua paralyticorum, clodorum, caecorum et aliorum quoque morborum saepius petita remedia conquiruntur. Fedamia quaedam mulier paralysi humore constricta, quae nullum corporis membrum sine dolore vigebat, exhibita est, deferentibus propinquis, ad beatam basilicam, ut vel stipem a largientibus mereretur. Quae dum in porticu illa, quae sanctae basilicae coniungitur, decubaret noctem dominicam, dum sacrosanctis vigiliis populi fides devota concelebrat, et illa quiescens lectulo paululum obdormisset, a viro quodam per visum correpta atque increpita est, dicente sibi, cur, reliquis excubias nocturnas Deo exhibentibus, illa deesset. Respondit, se ab omni membrorum parte debilem nec penitus gressum agere posse. Tunc quasi sustentata a viro qui loquebatur ei et ad sepulchrum usque deducta, dum in sopore fundit orationem, visum est ei, quasi multitudo catenarum ab eius membris solo decidere. A quo etiam sonitu expergefacta, sensit omnium artuum recepisse plenissimam sanitatem. Protinus surrexit a lectulo, et stupentibus cunctis, cum gratiarum actione vociferans, sanctam est ingressa basilicam. Ferunt etiam quidam, solitam fuisse eam referre habitum viri qui cara fuerat adlocutus. Dicebat, eum statura esse procerum, veste nitidum, elegantia eximium, vultu hilarem, flava caesariae, inmixtis canis, incessu expeditum, voce liberum, allocutione blandissimum, candoremque cutis illius ultra lilii nitorem fulgere, ita ut de multis milibus hominum, quae saepe vidisset, nullum similem conspicaret. Unde multis non absurde videtur, ei beatum martyrem apparuisse. Quae mulier post decim et octo annos sanata est.