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many, in endeavouring to pass it, perished miserably. And there 

 did Julian found a cell of penance for himself, and near to it an 

 hospital for the poor : and by day and by night, in summer and 

 wititer, he ferried travellers across this torrent without fee or 

 reward. 



" One night, in the depth of winter, when the flood had broken 

 its icy bounds, and was raging horribly, he heard in the pauses of 

 the storm a mournful voice, which called to him across the 

 stream. And he arose immediately, and found on the opposite 

 bank a youth who was a leper, and who appeared to be dying 

 from fatigue and cold. He brought him over the river and carried 

 him in his arms, and laid him in his own bed, and he and his wife 

 watched by him till the morning. When it dawned, the leper rose 

 up m the bed, and his face was transformed, and appeared to 

 thein as that of an angel of light ; and he said, ' Julian, the Lord 

 hath sent me to thee, for thy penitence is accepted, and thy rest is 

 near at hand,' and then vanished from their sight. Then Julian 

 and his wife fell on their faces, and thanked God for all His 

 mercies ; and shortly afterwards, being full of years and good 

 works, they slept in the Lord. 



" This legend is often found as a series of subjects in ecclesias- 

 tical decoration. It is beautifully told in a series of subjects on 

 one of the windows of the Cathedral of Rouen, presented by the 

 company of boatmen of that city in the fourteenth century." 



