Bede Ecclesiastical History Book I Chapter Eighteen
St. Bede the Venerable
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum:St. Germanus restores sight to the blind daughter of a Tribune, and, going to the tomb of St. Alban, collects some of his relics, depositing others of the blessed Apostles and of other martyrs there.
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Book I, Chapter XVIII
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St. Germanus restores sight to the blind daughter of a Tribune, and, going to the tomb of St. Alban, collects some of his relics, depositing others of the blessed Apostles and of other martyrs there.
A Tribune and his wife, who were present at this disputation, immediately stepped forward into the midst of the assembly, offering their blind daughter, who was ten years of age, to be cured by the priests. Upon which, they ordered them to present her to their adversaries ; but they, being deterred by remorse of conscience from attempting it, joined their entreaties to those of the child's parents, beseeching the priests to cure the girl ; who, perceiving their opponents thus wavering from their false opinions, made a short prayer ; and then Germanus, inspired by the Holy Ghost, invoked the Trinity, took from his neck into his hands a small box, in which were the relics of the Saints, which he used to carry with him, in the presence of the whole assembly, and applied it to the child's eyes ; which, in a moment freed from darkness, were filled with the light of truth. The parents rejoice, the people are astonished at the miracle: and, from that day, the wicked opinions of Pelagius were so entirely obliterated from their minds, that they all embraced the doctrine of the holy prelates with the greatest fervour.
The most perverse and pernicious errors being thus suppressed, and the authors of them confuted, the minds of the people being now settled in the purity of the faith, the holy preachers went to the tomb of St. Alban, to return thanks through him to God who was the author of these blessings; where Germanus, having brought with him relics of all the apostles and of different martyrs, offered up his prayers, and, ordering the tomb to be opened, deposited these precious treasures in it ; thinking it proper that the members of the Saints collected in different countries, and whose souls had all been received into the same place in heaven on account of their equal merits, should be placed together in the same sepulchre : which, when he had done, he took out of the same grave a small quantity of mould, on which the sacred gore being still preserved, bore testimony to the martyrdom of the saints, who had lately suffered there. On the same day that these things were thus performed, an immense number were converted to the true faith
