Chapter 19

Of a crippled woman.

A CERTAIN woman in the parish of St. John at London (St. John Zachary), enfeebled with long sickness, continually kept her bed and, despairing of health, was only awaiting her last hour. She, having heard from her neighbours what and how great wonders were done by the power of God in the church of the blessed apostle, and being filled with the strength of unconquerable faith in good hope, asked that she should be carried thither. And being brought there she proved by experience the truth of what she had heard, and felt it to her profit and obtained the answer to her prayer by the free gift of our Lord Jesus Christ, the author of our faith, who heals the broken-hearted and binds up their sorrow.

 

The Book of the Foundation of St. Bartholomew's, Smithfield

Rendered into Modern English from the original Latin version preserved in the British Museum, numbered Vespasian B. IX, by Mr. Humphrey H. King and Mr. William Barnard for use in the Records of St. Bartholomew's Priory by E.A. Webb.

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