The Eels, Says The Writer, Had Been Dead And Slimy,
But Now Turned Their Bellies Downwards Once More And Twisted About In
Their Usual Spirals; There Began A General Weeping Among The Onlookers,
And The Fame Of The Miracle Immediately Spread Abroad.
He could do the
same with lobsters, cows, and human beings.
Thus a cow belonging to Fra Egidio's monastery was once stolen by an
impious butcher, and cut up into the usual joints with a view to a
clandestine sale of the meat. The saint discovered the beast's remains,
ordered that they should be laid together on the floor in the shape of a
living cow, with the entrails, head and so forth in their natural
positions; then, having made the sign of the cross with his cord upon
the slaughtered beast, and rousing up all his faith, he said: "In the
name of God and of Saint Pasquale, arise, Catherine!" (Catherine was the
cow's name.) "At these words the animal lowed, shook itself, and stood
up on its feet alive, whole and strong, even as it had been before it
was killed."
In the case of one of the dead men whom he brought to life, the
undertakers were already about their sad task; but Fra Egidio, viewing
the corpse, remarked in his usual manner that the man was "not dead, but
only asleep," and after a few saintly manipulations, roused him from his
slumber. The most portentous of his wonders, however, are those which he
wrought after his own death by means of his relics and otherwise; they
have been sworn to by many persons.
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