d so were departed, and the
bones were put in the church of him that it was dedicate of. And others
say that Silvester the pope would hallow the churches and took all the
bones together, and departed them by weight, great and small, and put
that one-half in one church, and that other half in that other.

And St. Gregory recounteth in his dialogues that, in the church of St.
Peter, where his bones rest, was a man of great holiness and of meekness
named Gentian, and there came a maid into the church which was cripple,
and drew her body and legs after her with her hands, and when she had
long required and prayed St. Peter for health, he appeared to her in a
vision, and said to her: Go to Gentian, my servant, and he shall restore
thy health. Then began she to creep here and there through the church,
and inquired who was Gentian, and suddenly it happed that he came to her
that him sought, and she said to him: The holy apostle St. Peter sent me
to thee that thou shouldest make me whole and deliver me from my
disease, and he answered: If thou be sent to me from him, arise thou
anon and go on thy feet. And he took her by the hand and anon she was
all whole, in such wise as she felt nothing of her grief nor malady, and
then she thanked God and St. Peter.

And in the same book St. Gregory saith when that a holy priest was come
to the end of his life, he began to cry in great gladness: Ye be
welcome, my lords, ye be welcome that ye vouchsafe to come to so little
and poor a servant, and he said: I shall come and thank you. Then they
that stood by demanded who they were that he spake to, and he said to
them wondering: Have ye not seen the blessed apostles Peter and Paul?
and as he cried again, his blessed soul departed from the flesh.

Some have doubt whether Peter and Paul suffered death in one day, for
some say it was the same one day, but one a year after the other. And
Jerome and all the Saints that treat of this matter accord that it was
on one day and one year, and so is it contained in an epistle of Denis,
and Leo the pope saith the same in a sermon, saying: We suppose but that
it was not done without cause that they suffered in one day and in one
place the sentence of the tyrant, and they suffered death in one time,
to the end that they should go together to Jesu Christ, and both under
one persecutor to the end that equal cruelty should strain that one and
that other. The day for their merit, the place for their glory, and