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name of Ruodlang was brought in a car by her friends and rela- 

 tives from a monastery a league off. She spent the night watching 

 and praying by the bier of the saints ; " and health returning 

 to all her members, on the morrow she went back to her place 

 whence she came, on her feet, nobody supporting her, or in any 

 way giving her assistance." (Cap. ii, 19.) 



On the second day the relics were carried to Upper Mulinheim, 

 and finally, in accordance with the orders of the martyrs, deposited 

 in the church of that place, which was therefore renamed Seligen- 

 stadt. Here, Daniel, a beggar boy of fifteen, and so bent that " he 

 could not look at the sky without lying on his back," collapsed 

 and fell down during the celebration of the mass. " Thus he lay 

 a long time, as if asleep, and all his limbs straightening and his 

 flesh strengthening (recepta firmitate nervorum), he arose before 

 our eyes, quite well." (Cap. ii, 20.) 



Some time afterward an old man entered the church on his 

 hands and knees, being unable to use his limbs properly : 



He, in the presence of all of us, by the power of God and the merits of the 

 blessed martyrs, in the same hour in which he entered was so perfectly cured that 

 he walked without so much as a stick. And he said that, though he had been deaf 

 for five years, his deafness had ceased along with the palsy. (Cap. iii, 33.) 



Eginhard was now obliged to return to the court at Aix-la- 

 Chapelle, where his duties kept him through the winter ; and he 

 is careful to point out that the later miracles which he proceeds 

 to speak of are known to him only at second hand. But, as he 

 naturally observes, having seen such wonderful events with his 

 own eyes, why should he doubt similar narrations when they are 

 received from trustworthy sources ? 



Wonderful stories these are indeed, but as they are, for the 

 most part, of the same general character as those already re- 

 counted, they may be passed over. There is, however, an account 

 of a possessed maiden which is worth attention. 



This is set forth in a memoir, the principal contents of which 

 are the speeches of a demon who declared that he possessed the 

 singular appellation of " Wiggo," and revealed himself in the 

 presence of many witnesses, before the altar, close to the relics of 

 the blessed martyrs. It is noteworthy that the revelations appear 

 to have been made in the shape of replies to the questions of the 

 exorcising priest, and there is no means of judging how far the 

 answers are really only the questions to which the patient replied 

 yes or no. 



The possessed girl, about sixteen years of age, was brought by 

 her parents to the basilica of the martyrs. 



When she approached the tomb containing the sacred bodies, the priest, ac- 

 cording to custom, read the formula of exorcism over her head. When he began 



